Able Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation…

— Adam Yauch

When people see Barack Obama, they don't necessarily see an African-American president. They see someone who is a child of immigrants. They see someone…

— Grace Meng

Obama is not just a powerful speaker, but a thinker engaged with the ideas of his country and his age--this argument by historian James…

— Martha Minow

Billions of people around the globe had come to know Barack Obama, had heard his words, had watched his speeches, and, in some unknowable…

— Ben Rhodes

Undoubtedly Obama's multi-ethnic heritage is part of his appeal. There is something in his background that we can all relate to and grab hold…

— Chuka Umunna

Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history…

— Teju Cole

[Barack] Obama has a grasp of language and the presentation of language, particularly in times of crisis. And he did this over the race…

— Frank Luntz

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

“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

Barack the boy was raised by his white maternal grandparents; his Kenyan father abandoned him. The qualities Americans appeared to find universally appealing in…

— Ilana Mercer

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

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black…

— Jimmy Carter