Barack obama Quote by Rocky Carroll

Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually…

— Jeffrey Kluger

If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton would be out of…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Even Toni Morrison claiming Bill Clinton as 'black' could not prepare us for the election of America's first undeniably black president, Barack Obama.

— Kevin Young

When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in…

— Willard Wigan

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

— Charles Barkley

There's a time when it was an event for a black person to be on television. Where black households would gather around, 'Oh, you…

— Sterling K. Brown

My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.

— Anonymous

I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it…

— Umberto Eco

I don't think the mainstream media understands people of color are multidimensional. For some reason, there's an idea that only white people are relatable.…

— Issa Rae

I'm trying to use euphemisms here, trying to avoid saying there was no television for black folks, which they knew was for them.

— Don Cornelius

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

— Douglas Wilder

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