Come Quote by Lawrence O'Donnell

I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the presidency of the United States. People who say, 'It…

— Mark McKinnon

I wonder: Would there be a black president if people hadn't already begun imagining, through film and television, that a black man is president?…

— Lynn Nottage

Funny enough though, despite what Donald Trump has to say and the way African-American people are portrayed so often in media, African-American people can…

— Lynn Whitfield

In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought we'd come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.

— Harvey Gantt

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with…

— Chris Rock

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

— Nat Hentoff

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

The classic rules of American politics are dying, if not dead, if you look at the last two presidential elections. An African-American could never…

— Eric Garcetti

It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.

— Jess Row

After my election there was talk of a postracial America. And such a vision, however well intended, was never realistic.

— Barack Obama

It's undeniable there's been remarkable progress for African-Americans in this country. They've been elected senators and governors and running major corporations. But obviously we…

— Dana Bash

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists,…

— Anthony Braxton