To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. T…

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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. ✨ Barack Obama (2007). Dreams From My Father, p.100, Canongate Books
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. ✨ Barack Obama (2007). Dreams From My Father, p.100, Canongate Books

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