Black Quote by Tavis Smiley

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

If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

News flash to black Americans: Barack Obama has never loved you, and by now, it should be clear to you!

— Jesse Lee Peterson

“The irony of Barack Obama is this: He has become the most successful black politician in American history by avoiding the radioactive racial issues…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than that. It's not just a…

— Aunjanue Ellis

Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully human and…

— Juan Williams

Regardless of what you feel about Obama and his politics - screw all that. The fact of the matter is, he was the first…

— Ed Dwight

“Whatever Obama’s other triumphs, arguably his greatest has been an expansion of the black imagination to encompass this: the idea that a man can…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

African-American people adore President Obama.

— Julianne Malveaux

I have a lot of respect for President Obama, and while I deeply disagree with some of his actions or lack of action on…

— Alicia Garza