Quotes from Roberta Edwards

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For the first time, he began calling himself Barack. Partly because a beautiful, older girl told him it was a great name. But also because he now felt that it was a great name, too, a name that belonged to him.

But in 1982 (one year before Barack graduated), Barack Obama, Sr., died in a car accident. He

was only forty-six years old. Losing

was satisfying to see change happen. However, the more time he spent in Chicago, the more Barack believed the best way to change the lives of the poor was through the law.

He probably was happy, too, to get away from his mother!)

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father was ashamed of the baby and left him with his mother.

Blue came from grinding a stone called lapis lazuli into dust. Red came from crushing tiny beetles. Yellow came from the juice of one kind of berry.