African american Quote by Harry Reid

He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

— Harry Reid

Barack Obama actually grew up black in America. He knows a thing or two about being judged by the color of his skin, rather…

— Neil Macdonald

Obama is not an African American president, but a president of all Americans. It doesn't matter if you are black, white, Hispanic, he's the…

— John Lewis

“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

“When presidential candidate Barack Obama presented himself to the black community, he was not to be believed. It strained credulity to think that a…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Barack Obama is not black America's messiah.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

(Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such…

— Harry Reid

What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“(On Barack Obama) "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean,…

— Joe Biden

"...light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect."

— Harry Reid

I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.

— Julianne Malveaux