America Quote by Denzel Washington

I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this chapter in…

— Hillary Clinton

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

The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper…

— J. C. Watts

I think to be very blunt about it, in a lot of that support is a desire for convergence of a black skin with…

— Shelby Steele

Trust me, Black folks are tired of always having to save this country from itself and then being ignored once the winner of their…

— Jonathan Capehart

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with…

— Chris Rock

Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here…

— Ken Mehlman

In the recent Virginia election, the black vote diminished. Now why was that? I think a lot of black folks are wondering what this…

— Nat Hentoff

Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black America to…

— James Howard Kunstler

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

— Mitch McConnell

Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious…

— Patrisse Cullors

I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk…

— Martin Luther King, Jr