Asks Quote by Bill Maher

That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which…

— Ishmael Reed

“He never denied it. He never did anything. He never acted like either a nigger or a white man. That was it. That was…

— William Faulkner

After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually…

— Theodore Roosevelt

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do…

— Bill Ayers

“Lyndon Johnson knew this when he quipped, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t…

— Nancy Isenberg

“I pointed to a Black man standing nearby and said, "If I had said something up there on that stage today that was crazy,…

— W. Kamau Bell

“When Obama was elected president, a prisoner said “one black man in the White House doesn’t make up for one million black men in…

— Angela Y. Davis

“It's a proclamation he regards as complete absolution from answering...as if his last name was Bush, he was eighteen, and there was a draft…

— Laurie Notaro

“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

So we've never had a President of the United States ask anything of black citizens. And I think the reason for that is they've…

— Shelby Steele

The small moments I've had to talk with President Obama, I've told him, 'I get it.' His presidency was in some ways almost overshadowed…

— Kenya Barris

“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