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Saturday, 20 June 2009

Real-Life: Homeless to Harvard

"I have felt the anger at having to catch up in school . . . being bullied because they knew I was poor, different, and read too much," she wrote in her college essays. "I knew that if I wanted to become a smart, successful scholar, I should talk to other smart people."
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“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, Barack Obama’s half-sister talked about their mother
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