“I know who I am. My friends, my family, my constituency know who I am, and by the time this campaign is all over, America will know who I am.” |
When asked what he thinks of the “Is he black enough?” discussion, Obama grins. Perhaps it’s that bit of [Muhammad] Ali in him. “If you go to my barbershop, the Hyde Park Hair Salon, 53rd Street on the Southside, and you ask my guys in there, people don’t understand the question,” he says. “But it’s something I worked out a long time ago. I know who I am. My friends, my family, my constituency know who I am, and by the time this campaign is all over, America will know who I am.” —Barack Obama
Jeff Chang, “Ladies and Gentlemen, (Is This) The Next President of the United States(?),” Vibe Magazine, September 2007 (Volume 15, Number 9), 178. https://books.google.com/books?id=nyYEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA172#v=onepage&q&f=false.
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