for me, i would say that, you know, we have lots of differences. my politics and my brothers politics are not very similar, but we have, and also our grandmother is grandmother probably couldn't say -- like mine could but the thing is we still come together. i hope that maybe in the future, but two more years, you know, you will have an opportunity to make another choice. that's also a wonderful thing about the united states. [applause] >> i will take some more. i really enjoy this. >> how are you? >> fight, how are you? >> well,. >> which culture are you the most comfortable with? >> you know, that's one reason why i wrote this book so i

couldn't answer a question like that. because my book is about three cultures. it's called my personal odyssey of self-discovery. the reason i wrote this book is because for much of us an increasingly globalized world where we are struggling to a three cultures our kids, sisters, parents now are part of multiple cultures. it's so important that we understand these bumpy roads. and i went through this in a very difficult way come and i think barack went through this in a very difficult way. i would say we are always -- for mixed race kids and thei they're often on the outside as well as on inside, no matter where they are. but it's a unique thing. getting back to your point, i think the gentleman who shared with us some of his ideas and opinions is that one thing which i think helps us in dealing with, in understanding my

brother is that he has been able to be on the inside and the outside of multiple cultures. the question is how do you use that? for me, i've always felt that to be an american is to be able to take different cultures and follow your own path. it's an being an individual, and there'there is a saying in chini will use it to express a contradiction called -- which means going to own path but let others say what they may. but thanks for that question. >> will you sign books at? >> i outslugged will. but i'm still looking for this section. [laughter] if something about my

grandmother i don't know if you guys, if you know, my grandmother, ida baker come was an amazing person and she was a person who helped me understand myself and also introduced me to music. when i met my wife, i imagined what would happen if my grandma had matter. but let me, a few will just bear with me, i will find it some way here. [inaudible] >> 310, is this it? >> wonderful. this is a man who knows how to read. let's give him an applause. thank you. [applause] >> did you say 318? he knows my book better than me. that's scary. let's see here. it's at the end of the chapter and its close. let me see here. let's take one minute.

bearers apart about my needing my wife -- meeting my wife, and it happens towards the end of the chapter. oh, it is. i found it. great, fantastic. okay. thank you, everyone for being so patient. this is in china and it's about my wife who has been the source of so much and given me the courage in many ways to write even. actual i wouldn't have met barack during the inauguration, during the campaign if it hadn't been for the chief it going soon. i took my money which have been said for the end of the this is paternal or how to say, and partners, power of persuasion. i use that money to buy a ticket

after a particular event which is mentioned in the book. she has been the one who gave me the courage to write because as all writers know, writing is like pulling teeth. you have to go deep into yourself and check to try to be as honest as you can pick it's like music. i play piano. i play piano and i play but it's -- people in the itunes know if it's good music. how do they know? because it has to come from here. and if it's not, though matter whether the notes are right, people will not connect with it, and writing is like that. my wife helped me understand that. that said, this is a little been yet from china, chin said, hong kong, imagine hong kong a few years ago and china's newest

city, only 30 years old, 10 million people. i still have a foot of the right. this is my first day. i saw the photo of that ride we took to the lakeshore just a few miles to my apartment. she sat on the back of my bicycle, as young lovers in china do. we sat on it here and splashed our feet in the water but in a photo from the date her foot is next to mine. her toes out. should would limit will and i would laugh because it looked like a big radish. heading back the sunset seemed to burn up the beginning of her hands around my waist made me forget about classes, banks and making ends meet come everything but at that moment i realized i was falling in love. i invited her to my apartment one day and gave her a special gift, and gave her a special gift i made for i took a bowl of water and handed her a red rose. why are you give me this?

look closer, i smile at her. my goodness picture look more closely. i had written mark an ex-agent each think the them up and drop them in the water, i said. we drop the pedals and saw them float against each other in a glass bowl. she didn't do anything but saw in her eyes she was moved to if not take much to make her happy. soon we were dating and other and should recently, from a province ended taken a job temporarily until should get better work. her parents were farmers and she been raised in poverty. ike many migrants, she had a dream of living a better life than her mother and father. she wanted to do something to better her own business. as i continue to live and work, i felt as though i carefully laid plans of pursuing a corporate career were not that important all my ideas are getting a high paying job, cannot. i could've gone back to corporate life in america, but

would've meant leaving the orphans, i have done some work with orphans, and possibly her company and that the early stage i knew without a been happy in america. i well remember my own unhappiness when i left kenya for america. i recall the time when my grandmother visited and wanted to bring one of our kenyan domestic back to america. to help around the house. country, i can give her good side and place to stick it all should needed his help around the house. how much i want some help around the house, sweeping the leaves from the path everyone. what a chore. our domestic help, parker family, under this proposal was a bit static. sunday it would be great to go to america, but my mother took leave tossed grandma out of the i.t. she wouldn't be happier. she would be away from her people and it would be a huge shock to her.