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Renegades: Born in the USA QUOTES

Renegades: Born in the USA QUOTES

1 " To talk about race, you have to talk about your differences. To talk about race, you have to talk about, to some degree, deconstructing the myth of the melting pot, which has never fundamentally been true. To admit that a big part of our history has been plunderous and violent and rigged against people of color. We’re ashamed of our collective guilt. We would have to admit and to grieve for what’s been done. We would have to acknowledge our own daily complicity, and to acknowledge that we are tied to the history of racism. "

― Barack Obama , Renegades: Born in the USA

2 " that archetype is a closed man. Your inner self is forever secretive and unknown—stoic, silent, not revealing of your feelings. "

― Barack Obama , Renegades: Born in the USA

3 " the notion of grace as a recognition that we are fundamentally flawed and weak and confused. We don’t deserve grace, but we get it sometimes. "

― Barack Obama , Renegades: Born in the USA

4 " work is essential. "

― Barack Obama , Renegades: Born in the USA

5 " African American boys or white boys. They don’t have rituals, road maps, and initiation rites into a clear sense of a male strength and energy that is positive as opposed to just dominating. "

― Barack Obama , Renegades: Born in the USA

6 " the only clear, defining thing about being a man, about being masculine, is excelling in sports and sexual conquest— BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: And violence. "

― Barack Obama , Renegades: Born in the USA

7 " Later, you add to that definition: making money. How much money can you make? "

― Barack Obama , Renegades: Born in the USA

8 " carrying all the same baggage. All the same anger, all the same pent-up frustrations, all the same messages. "

― Barack Obama , Renegades: Born in the USA

9 " Every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or live up to his mistakes. "

― Barack Obama , Renegades: Born in the USA

10 " that archetype is a closed man. "

― Barack Obama , Renegades: Born in the USA

11 " think people whose fathers aren’t there—and whose mothers are feeling really bitter about their fathers’ not being there—what they absorb is how terrible that guy was and you don’t want to be like that guy. In "

― Barack Obama , Renegades: Born in the USA

12 " Every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or live up to his mistakes. You "

― Barack Obama , Renegades: Born in the USA

13 " I think we’re people that needed boundaries. "

― Barack Obama , Renegades: Born in the USA

14 " if you needed a woman, you were weak. Family was restrictive to your male freedoms. "

― Barack Obama , Renegades: Born in the USA