Black Quote by Jack White

“He already had a sense of the ways in which white blues fans were unduly aroused by the supreme otherness of black, prewar blues…

— Amanda Petrusich

Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.

— Princess Nokia

There's something beautiful about the fact that Obama was not just elected, but elected decisively across racial, and socio-economic and cultural groups and that…

— Maya Angelou

Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and…

— Hari Kunzru

I have a lot of respect for President Obama, and while I deeply disagree with some of his actions or lack of action on…

— Alicia Garza

“Whatever Obama’s other triumphs, arguably his greatest has been an expansion of the black imagination to encompass this: the idea that a man can…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I…

— Tavis Smiley

You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us. James Brown,…

— Geoffrey Canada

For a musician to be good, he has to have humanity and care about the other guy. And as for blues - in a…

— Harry Dean Stanton

“Obama had always to field demands from some blacks to be blacker, and the wish of many whites to whitewash the story of American…

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

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