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Who
is this man Barack and where did he come
from?
A
picture
is worth a thousand
words!
   
Obama
Photo Gallery
WHERE
DID HE COME FROM?
FATHER
and MOTHER
MOTHER
and SON
FATHER
and SON
Barack
Obama Sr. poses with his son in the Honolulu airport
during
Obama Sr.'s only visit to see his son while he was
growing
up in Hawaii . Young Barack was in the 5th grade
when the
photo was taken
Barack Obama Sr., a native
of Kenya , met his future wife while they were students at the
University of Hawaii . In 1963, he essentially abandoned his
family to continue his studies at
Harvard.
Grandparents and
Mom
THE
DUNHAMS: precocious, self-assured
Stanley Ann (left); her
impetuous father,
who named his only child after himself;
her mother, Madelyn, the quiet, firm
influence in the
home.
At their home in Jakarta , Ann Dunham poses in
this undated photo with her second husband, Lolo Soetoro,
their daughter, Maya, and Barack
Obama.
Mom,
Sister and Barack
WHAT
ARE GRANDPARENTS?
Barack
Obama with his maternal grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn
Dunham during a 1982 visit to New York , where Obama was
attending Columbia . (Courtesy of The Obama
Family
Barack
Obama walks with his grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama at his
father's house in Nyongoma Kogelo village, western Kenya , in
Aug. 2006. (AP file)
Barack
Obama with his grandmother, Sarah Hussein Obama, in Africa
(Courtesy)
In
this Obama Family photo ares: (bottom row, from left)
half-sister Auma, her mother Kezia Obama, Obama's
step-grandmother Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama and unknown; (top
row, from left) unknown, Barack Obama, half-brother Abongo
(Roy) Obama, and three unknowns. (Courtesy of the Obama
Family)
FATHER
Barack
Obama as a toddler.
(Courtesy
of Barack Obama)
(
Barack
Obama as a child. (Courtesy of Barack
Obama)
Barack
walks along Waikiki Beach shortly before he and his mother
moved from Hawaii to Indonesia to live with her second
husband, Lolo Soetoro, in 1967.
Barack
poses with his mother, Ann, half
sister, Maya, and
maternal grandfather
Stanley Dunham in Hawaii in the early
1970s after the family returned from I
ndonesia.
Neighbors remember the
close relationship between
young
Barack and his
grandfather.
A
page from Barack Obama's senior yearbook features his
personalized message to family, friends and teammates. (Photo
from The Oahuan yearbook / March 23, 2007)
Barack
Obama hugs his younger half sister Maya at his high school
graduation
Barack
Obama shakes hands during his graduation ceremony from Punahou
School in 1979. While in his early teens, Obama chose to stay
at the school and live with his grandparents after his mother
decided to move back to Jakarta , Ind
onesia.
At
his high school graduation, Barack Obama gets a hug from his
grandmother Madelyn as his grandfather Stanley beams. His
maternal grandparents raised Obama in Hawaii while his mother
was living in Indonesia .
Maya
Soetoro-Ng, Barack Obama's half sister, teaches her Education
in American Society class at the University of
Hawaii
.
The
wedding day of Barack Obama Jr. and Michelle LaVaughn
Robinson...... (Courtesy of the Obama
Family)
Barack
and first born
THE
FAMILY
Quotations
'Our
deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest
fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our
light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask
ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and
fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a
child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so
that
other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all
meant to shine, as children do.
We are born to make
manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just
in some of us, it's in everyone.
And as we let our own
light shine,
we unconsciously give other
people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our
own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.'
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