“Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.”

“We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.”

“We were decades, still, from a time when a simple Google search would bring up a head-spinning array of charts, statistics, and medical explainers that either gave or took away hope.”

“Barack wasn't a real black man, like them--someone who spoke like that, looked like that, and read that many books could never be. What bothered me most was that Barack exemplified everythin...”

“ON MY WAY, I was learning, was the product of Barack's eternal optimism, an indication of his eagerness to be home that did nothing to signify when he would actually arrive. ALMOST HOME was...”

“[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.”