America Quote by Henry Rollins

Barack H. Obama is a landmark presidential figure as the first black, multiracial, multicultural president from Hawaii and the Pacific.

— Dinesh Sharma

Donald Trump has made it clear that certainly over the last few years that President [Barack] Obama was born in Hawaii.

— John Lewis

If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I…

— Meek Mill

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

— Samuel L. Jackson

I never thought my granny, somebody that was born down South, who witnessed America when it was segregated, would see, in her lifetime, an…

— Nipsey Hussle

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, Look how far weve come, because…

— Kathryn Stockett

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea…

— Henry Louis Gates

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

— Douglas Wilder

I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the…

— J. August Richards

Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.

— Coolio

I was born black in this country. Trust me, I've seen the government.

— Eddie Griffin