Obama's Victory Speech 02
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Obama's Victory Speech 01
FULL TEXT: PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA: Hello Chicago If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. Its the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their ...
Frank McCourt14: On escaping the signs of poverty
What were you thinking when you came to America at the age of 19. Out of this background, full of anger at your circumstances, at the church, at the lack of opportunity, what was in your mind when you came here? What were you looking for? Frank mccourt: When I arrived here my condition was very poor, emotionally, psychologically, even physically. I had no self-esteem because of what I came from. No education. Everybody was saying, "Oh, you have to have a high school diploma in this country ...
Frank McCourt13: On poverty and despair
Frank mccourt13: We didn't want to look like we came from the lane So when I was growing up I wasn't particularly proud of it. None of us were when we finally left. Even around Limerick, if we wandered out of our lane, we went into other areas, more prosperous areas of Limerick, We didn't want to look like we came from the lane, but you could spot us a mile away. The urchins from the lanes. We had that look. You see kids roaming the big cities, in New York, in America, the inner cities as ...
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Frank McCourt12: Did it ever occur to you that you were making an epic tale?
Did it ever occur to you that this was the makings of some epic tale? Frank mccourt: Oh, no. Far from it. We were all ashamed of this. You didn't go out into the world announcing that you came from some slum. You don't find kids from the ghettos and the slums bragging about what they came from. I remember reading James Baldwin talking about his mother fighting the cockroaches, trying to keep the kitchen clean, trying to keep things growing up in Harlem, and I said, "That's it. This man ...
Frank McCourt11: I had typhoid. Yeah
Frank mccourt: I had typhoid. Yeah, because there was a lavatory that we all shared in this lane. All the families came and emptied their buckets. They used the bucket in the house, in the bedroom, for everything, and then emptied it into this lavatory. And it would overflow and there was waste, dirt, pee, piss, excrement everywhere. Flies, rats, everything coming to -- were attracted to this lavatory. And our door would be open and our door was catty corner with the door of this lavatory ...
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Frank McCourt10: Friday nights' vigil..
But then my father would ruin the whole thing with his drinking. He really drove my mother to the wall. He drove her into a nearly fatal depression with the drinking. If he got a job and he was paid on Friday night, there was kind of a dramatic element to this. The men got out of work, out of the factories and the timber yards and the cement factories at 5:30. They would come home on Friday night, most of them, wash themselves to here, from here to here, never below. No, people didn't touch ...
Frank McCourt09: On Limerick army widows, Story-telling, not taking a test...
A lot of the women in Limerick were widows from the British Army. They used to get pension payments and if you brought a telegram from somebody else wishing them "Merry Christmas" or something like that, and it wasn't a telegram from the British Army, they'd attack you because they were so frustrated waiting for the money. They'd take one look at it and then look at you and then you knew the attack was coming. So you'd run down the path and hop on the bike. So I became a psychologist; I ...
Frank McCourt08: So you left school when you were 14?...Yeah, I was actually 13 when I was finished.
So you left school when you were 14? Frank mccourt: Yeah, I was actually 13 when I was finished. What did a 13-year old do? Frank mccourt: A 13-year old waited until he was 14 and then... I got a job at the post office delivering telegrams. You had to take kind of a test to get into the post office for what they call a temporary telegram boy and then you could later go to school and get the permanent telegram boy job. And if you got that, then later on you could become a postman and maybe a ...
