About Quote by Harvey Gantt

Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

— Samuel L. Jackson

We still have a long way to go but if we work together and we work hard, you'll see black people in positions you…

— Leah Chase

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

In 2016, the conversation of the black experience is so broad, and it's very raw. I mean, c'mon, we have a black president. That's…

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to…

— Louis Farrakhan

I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.

— Barack Obama

If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.

— Jesse Jackson

I remember growing up, people would say, 'You could be president!' Well, for a black kid looking at that, it wasn't until Obama became…

— Jimmie Allen

At least they [people] showed the world we could elect a black president.

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Douglas Wilder

Electing a black president was probably the only coup America could pull off.

— Nick Nolte