African american Quote by Byron Allen

America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect.

— Mitch McConnell

Television had a black president long before Barack Obama.

— Rocky Carroll

America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States.

— David Scott

That's not an accident that Donald Trump didn't begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors,…

— Paula Patton

Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn…

— Monte Irvin

“We are approaching a very historical event in the history of our nation, the United States of America. For the first time in our…

— Aladdin Elaasar

Regardless of what you feel about Obama and his politics - screw all that. The fact of the matter is, he was the first…

— Ed Dwight

I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job He just has been unable to get…

— Hank Aaron

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

— Tim Robbins

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

— Douglas Wilder

I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that…

— Eric Holder