Book

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Barack Obama · 1995

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Themeevery-touch-and-breathhome-squaredgranny's-handthe-circle-beginning-to-closeonly-then-did-he-weepbarack's-laughter-was-emptysorting-old-belongingsthe-last-time-he-visited

Context1995lived_experience

Appears in

God & Work

What this book knows

A man assembles a self from fragments of race, absent fathers, and inherited silences—and finds that identity is a choice made in grief.

Sex: Absent
Work: Present
Learning: Present
Religion: Present

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self-and-identity

My face wore a smile and the magazines were back in their proper place. The room, the air, was quiet as before.
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The trick is not caring that it hurts. I tried to remember where I'd heard the line, but it was lost to me now.
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grief

I sat down on the couch, smelling eggs burn in the kitchen, staring at cracks in the plaster, trying to measure my loss.
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The two of them sat in their chairs, facing each other and eating their food, but no words passed between them.
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belonging

There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. It was the silence that betrayed us. I felt the circle finally close.
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Everything I was doing carried the full weight of my life; a circle was beginning to close, so that I might finally recognize myself.
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Illuminates

8 published passages · book excerpt · lived experience

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