“She felt that somehow, wandering through uncharted territory, we might stumble upon something that will, in an instant, seem to represent who we are at the core. That was very much her philosophy of life — to not be limited by fear or narrow definitions, to not build walls around ourselves and to do our best to find kinship and beauty in unexpected places.”
Maya Soetoro-Ng, speaking in the New York Times today of her mother, Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, who was also the mother of Barack Obama. Maya is Barack's half-sister.
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