About Quote by Shashi Tharoor

I've stepped back a few times and had these crazy epiphanies that we are blessed by having Barack Obama as a candidate at this…

— Eddie Vedder

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

“there is no inconsistency whatsoever between the election of Barack Obama to the highest office in the land and the existence of a racial…

— Michelle Alexander

Beyond [Barack Obama] having made history as the first African-American president, I hope that he gets re-elected for what he does while in office,…

— Lenny Kravitz

If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story…

— Eric Liu

The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

I am concerned that there are some feelings in some quarters in some corners that, what do people of color want now? We elected…

— John Lewis

There are some aspects of the story of 'Power' that clearly are about race in the sense that any one of us now who's…

— Courtney A. Kemp

Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.

— Don King

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

Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a…

— Gwen Ifill

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