White house Quote by Angela Y. Davis

“A negro in the White House? Oh no! Some people thought we'd never set foot in the White House again since we built it!!!!”

— Stacy-Deanne

“I had never seen a black man like Barack Obama. He talked to white people in a new language—as though he actually trusted them…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Barack Obama so spooked the bigoted whites of this country that we are now faced with a racist explicitness that we haven’t seen since…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Today my elation over Obama's election is tempered by a far more sobering awareness. As an African American woman, with three young children who…

— Michelle Alexander

“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

“In a democracy, so the saying goes, the people get the government they deserve. Part of Obama’s genius is a remarkable ability to soothe…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Late in the evening, someone in the White House decided to vent to Ben Smith: 'A senior White House official just called me with…

— Jim Geraghty

“Obama was born into a country where laws barring his very conception—let alone his ascendancy to the presidency—had long stood in force. A black…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Pointing to citizens who voted for both Obama and Trump does not disprove racism; it evinces it. To secure the White House, Obama needed…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Obama won, but he had few illusions that he had vanquished big money. “I’m an incumbent president who already had this huge network of…

— Jane Mayer

“I knew, and every black man there knew, that I, as a man now white once again, could say the things that needed saying…

— John Howard Griffin

After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a…

— Tyler Perry