Barack Obama the first African American president,the forty fourth president of the United States, author of Dreams from my Mother. The story talks about many different adversities the former president had to face growing up and how he saw life in different perspectives. This book covers many aspects of his life ranging from the family living the life they dreamed of versus the life of reality they encountered. Obama talks about how his family from his mother side, the mothers parents, his grandparents, who live in texas but who support and stand with black people which does not go down well in the state of Texas. Although having said this they were not fully open to an interracial marriage. When they found out their daughter was dating a black mom embraced it after a while. Equality was not present at the time and certainly not in Texas. Barack Obama being the product of the outcome of the interracial couple. Obama being in the middle and experiencing a white America and a black America and he always chose to stand up to racism and fight for equality.

“The exception is my mother, whom we lost, with a brutal swiftness, to cancer a few months after this book was published…I think sometimes that had I known she would not survive her illness, I might have written a different book-less a meditation on the absent parent, more a celebration of the one who was the single constant in my life. In my daughters I see her every day, her joy, her capacity for wonder. I won’t try to describe how deeply I mourn her passing still. I know that she was the kindest, most generous spirit I have ever known, and that what is best in me I owe to her.” 

This quote stood out to me because losing a family member is very hard to take in especially your mother who played an important role in your life and in the book he was making it must’ve been really hard for him to take it in.