American history Quote by Hari Kunzru

When Barack Obama got elected, I remember being in Harlem specifically. I remember watching that whole part of town just swell. People walked the…

— Mike Colter

“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

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that…

— Dilma Rousseff

Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved. I want…

— Marley Dias

It was something that came sort of matter-of-factually. Because there - it's like really - real honest engagement with the people around me and…

— Kehinde Wiley

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and…

— Bobby Seale

That old Bobby Kennedy 1968 form of liberalism where you could be holding hands with the Appalachian family on one day and then be…

— Van Jones

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

It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being…

— Bill Ayers

Barack Obama was amazing, but he wasn't perfect. We all know that. He was the closest thing to perfect America's ever had. We were…

— Beth Ditto

The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the…

— Randall Kennedy

In 2008, Barack Obama had all the wind at his back, everything going for him. He was an African-American at a time when the…

— George Will