"[Barack] Obama isn't pointing to anyone, and certainly doesn't like it when others note (correctly) that his influences were the likes of Saul Alinsky, the Chicagoan and modern founder of community organizing, or Frank Marshall Davis, the communist journalist and agitator from Chicago who mentored Obama in Hawaii in the latter 1970s, and who Obama warmly acknowledges in his memoirs."

-- Paul Kengor

#Community Quotes #Chicago Quotes #Hawaii Quotes

“Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people's minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and represents.”
“Looking at art is one way of listening to God.”
“If you put out 150 percent, then you can always expect 100 percent back. That's what I was always told as a kid, and It's worked for me so far!”
“Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.”
“That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.”
“Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.”
“In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.”
“You can't have somebody guide you through everything - some things you have to learn on your own.”

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