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Auma Obama Quotes

born 1960 Kenya

Rita Auma Obama (born 1960) is a Kenyan-British community activist, sociologist, journalist, author, and half-sister of the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama.

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If I’m teaching young people to use their voices and be active in making their lives a success.

Once others hear your voice loud and clear, they realise you exist.

If it’s just about my brother, I’ll never be a role model.

How can you tear-gas your own people? Listen to them. Listen to these children; they’re the future.

Poverty is no excuse. Development aid has to be linked to economic development

You can’t do this or that because you’re a girl. Or, You have to do this because you’re a girl. I asked Why? I’m a human being first.

I'm proud of our name because my brother has really carried our name up there ... it's made its mark in the world.

It's special for us and for our children and for our communities because it tells every child that if you work hard you can do whatever you want in this world. You can make you future

Why am I taking part? Because I love to dance. And whether I can dance well—I'm like those who sing in the shower. I think I can dance well, but we’ll see in a few days if it’s really the case.

My brother is authentic. He really believes in what he is trying to do. So there’s no hidden agenda. In that sense, he really is an open book. And I think that authenticity, that passion, and the image and the drive—it resonates with people.

I can’t believe that these young people are just trying to demonstrate for their rights and to tell them that we understand that they need to use their voices, and we are being tear-gassed. We’re being teargassed! We have flags and banners, nothing else.

Germans always like to think that they have a very liberal attitude towards Africans. But when you scratch the surface you can see that they they still carry around the prejudices of their childhood. In German fairy tales black people always appear as the bogey man. You don't forget things like that so easily.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Auma Obama (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.