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My Take
What strikes me about Condoleezza Rice is the sheer improbability of her trajectory: a Black girl from segregated Birmingham who became a Soviet specialist, a concert-level pianist, and the chief diplomat of the United States. One can argue endlessly about the foreign policy she helped shape, and people do, but I am more interested in the discipline underneath it all. She treated education as armor, and it carried her through rooms that were never built to admit her. Now leading the Hoover Institution, she remains a scholar at heart, and that intellectual seriousness is what earns my respect regardless of politics.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Condoleezza Rice
- Name (Japanese)
- コンドリーザ・ライス
- Reading
- こんどりーざ・らいす
- Born
- November 14, 1954 (age 71)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Horse
- Origin
- Birmingham, Alabama, United States
- Occupation
- politician / writer / political scientist / diplomat / autobiographer
2. Background
- University
- University of Denver
Awards & achievements
- 2007 Eric M. Warburg Award
- 1989 Candace Award
- 2010 Horatio Alger Award
- Order of Stara Planina
- Order of the Star of Romania
- Order of San Carlos
- Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Frequently asked questions
When was Condoleezza Rice born?
Born November 14, 1954 (age 71).
Where is Condoleezza Rice from?
Condoleezza Rice is from Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
What does Condoleezza Rice do?
Condoleezza Rice works as politician, writer, political scientist, diplomat, autobiographer.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.