{"quotes":[{"text":"As it was, she gave him the single most important gift a parent can give—“a sense of unconditional love that was big enough that, with all the surface disturbances of our lives, it sustained me, entirely.” People wonder about his calm and even-keeled manner, the [P]resident observed. He credited the temperament he was born with and the fact that “from a very early age, I always felt I was loved and that my mother thought I was special.","author":"Janny Scott","tags":["calmness","family","mother","obama"],"id":16101,"author_id":"Janny+Scott"},{"text":"Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively.","author":"Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha","tags":["bless","god","ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha","immortality","inspirational","leadership-torch","life","lives","obama","success","successity","touch","true-measure-of-success"],"id":25268,"author_id":"Ifeanyi+Enoch+Onuoha"},{"text":"Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Reproduction: Distinguished leaders impress, inspire and invest in other leaders.","author":"Anyaele Sam Chiyson","tags":["accomplishments","african-american-","african-","african-leaders","agu-jaachynam-n-e","amazom","anyaele-sam-chiyson","aspiration","be-different","book","business","chiysonovelty-bookclub","elections","entrepreneurship","fame","forbes","forbes-magazine","greater-glory","greatness","higher-living","immortality","improvement","inspiration","international-","intimacy","it-is-time-to-get-very-rich","leadership","leadership-development","life","money","niche","nigerian-","obama","president","reading","relationship","revolution","richest","richest-man","risk-it","security","self-help","success","successful-living","the-best-option","the-prince-and-the-pauper","the-sagacity-of-sage","wealth","women"],"id":27070,"author_id":"Anyaele+Sam+Chiyson"},{"text":"Word of advice for any young man that might want to take out Malia or Sasha Obama - Their father can order an assassination, don't piss him off.","author":"David C. Holley","tags":["absurd","advice","assassination","awkward","humor","obama","piss-off"],"id":37302,"author_id":"David+C.+Holley"},{"text":"Sometimes it's important to dare to dream - small or big - like Mandela, Gandhi, Winfrey, Obama, Malala and Dr King. From Einstein to Hawking - the skies no limit. From Ali to the Williams sisters - through trials and talent find the champions within. Like my mother did to raise great kids. Like the one or many who run with this. Like the unsung heroes in every city and village. Like the kind of heart and selfless healers. Like every act of kindness you ever did and received. Like the human spirit beyond class, colour and creed. Like every soul who has raised our consciousness. From one to all - love IS all we have and need.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["ali","champion","class","colour","compassion","consciousness","creed","dreaming","dreams","einstein","einstein","gandhi","great-souls","healers","inspiration","inspirational","kindness","love","malala","mandela","mindfulness","mohammed-ali","obama","oneness","oprah","oprah-winfrey","about-inner-strength","about-inspiration","about-life","rasheed-ogunlaru","rasheed-ogunlaru","stephen-hawking","the-power-of-positive-thinking","vision","visionaries","williams-sisters"],"id":52684,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: 'In the long run we are all dead.' And such shallow wisecracks pass as devastating epigrams and the ripest wisdom.","author":"Henry Hazlitt","tags":["economics","fdr","keynes","obama","progressivism"],"id":62309,"author_id":"Henry+Hazlitt"},{"text":"He's one fry short of a Happy Meal.","author":"Rush Limbaugh","tags":["humor","intellect","intelligence","obama"],"id":66977,"author_id":"Rush+Limbaugh"},{"text":"Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Advancement: Notable leaders chart the course of action that causes other leaders to progress toward reaching a goal and raising the status of power.","author":"Anyaele Sam Chiyson","tags":["accomplishments","african-american-","african-","african-leaders","agu-jaachynam-n-e","amazom","anyaele-sam-chiyson","aspiration","be-different","book","business","chiysonovelty-bookclub","elections","entrepreneurship","fame","forbes","forbes-magazine","greater-glory","greatness","higher-living","immortality","improvement","inspiration","international-","intimacy","it-is-time-to-get-very-rich","leadership","life","money","niche","nigerian-","obama","president","reading","relationship","revolution","richest","richest-man","risk-it","security","self-help","success","successful-living","the-best-option","the-prince-and-the-pauper","the-sagacity-of-sage","wealth","women"],"id":70206,"author_id":"Anyaele+Sam+Chiyson"},{"text":"On Undecided Voter​s: 'To put them in perspective, I think​ of being​ on an airplane.​ The flight attendant comes​ down the aisle​ with her food cart and, eventually,​ parks​ it beside my seat.​ “Can I inter​est you in the chick​en?​” she asks.​ “Or would​ you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broke​n glass​ in it?”To be undecided in this elect​ion is to pause​ for a moment and then ask how the chick​en is cooked.","author":"David Sedaris","tags":["obama","politics","undecided","vote","voters"],"id":71232,"author_id":"David+Sedaris"},{"text":"Is Obama Anything but Black?So lots of folk—mostly non-black—say Obama’s not black, he’s biracial, multiracial, black-and-white, anything but just black. Because his mother was white. But race is not biology; race is sociology. Race is not genotype; race is phenotype. Race matters because of racism. And racism is absurd because it’s about how you look. Not about the blood you have. It’s about the shade of your skin and the shape of your nose and the kink of your hair. Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass had white fathers. Imagine them saying they were not black.Imagine Obama, skin the color of a toasted almond, hair kinky, saying to a census worker—I’m kind of white. Sure you are, she’ll say. Many American Blacks have a white person in their ancestry, because white slave owners liked to go a-raping in the slave quarters at night. But if you come out looking dark, that’s it. (So if you are that blond, blue-eyed woman who says “My grandfather was Native American and I get discrimination too” when black folk are talking about shit, please stop it already.) In America, you don’t get to decide what race you are. It is decided for you. Barack Obama, looking as he does, would have had to sit in the back of the bus fifty years ago. If a random black guy commits a crime today, Barack Obama could be stopped and questioned for fitting the profile. And what would that profile be? “Black Man.","author":"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie","tags":["biracial","black","mixed-race","multiracial","obama","race"],"id":72273,"author_id":"Chimamanda+Ngozi+Adichie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":61,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}