Black Quote by Andrew Sullivan Download Open image “The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.” — Andrew Sullivan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Black Black americans Obama Relationship
I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community… — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the issue of race is always present in American politics and in the politics of any multiracial society. There is also no doubt that for some people it is an element in the manifested hostility to Obama. But I don't think it is the major theme at all. Obama is right when he reminds people:… — Al Gore Copy Share
“Obama had always to field demands from some blacks to be blacker, and the wish of many whites to whitewash the story of American… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Racial relations in this country are plummeting. Racial strife is rising. All the while, Obama is out there talking about unity and bringing us… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“This part of the Obama formula is the most troubling, and least thought out. This judgment emerges from my own biography. I am the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think that seeing as much support as somebody like Obama as a black candidate running for president in a country that historically has had issues with the African-American people, and them having issues vice-versa, is a miraculous thing. — David Draiman Copy Share
“Whatever Obama’s other triumphs, arguably his greatest has been an expansion of the black imagination to encompass this: the idea that a man can… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Everyone who has a pair of eyes in this country understands the racial tensions and the issues we have are very serious and they're… — Megan Rapinoe Copy Share Image
True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
