American women Quote by Omarosa Manigault Newman

After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a…

— Tyler Perry

Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House.…

— Muhammad Ali

I will never forget working in the White House for the first Black president.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

— Naomi Wolf

Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since…

— Douglas Wilder

I shouldn't be the only African American Republican in the House of Representatives.

— Will Hurd

I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that…

— Eric Holder

The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does - and who he has at the table.

— Danny Glover

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

— Samuel L. Jackson

There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have an easy…

— Johnnetta B. Cole

It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.

— Adele Logan Alexander

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that…

— Dilma Rousseff