with beauty imperfect.

**Listening to the Audio version of Obama's "Audacity of Hope."**A word to the wise, don't doubt me. i'm a brawny brown skin 'cause that's how my mama raised me. We came from nothing - immigrants - now we own pieces of the American Pie. I wish my grandmother, who went from an immigrant live-in nanny in Pittsburgh to a citizen home-owner in queens, could see how deep her seeds have sown. She was my biggest cheerleader. She knew that whatever i could dream, i could make come true. She never doubted me. I just know she'd be so proud.