Black Quote by Terrence Howard

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

President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to some of…

— Danny Glover

In 2012 President Obama didn't go anywhere near African-American communities. Why? Because unemployment was so high there, he didn't want to address it.

— Rudy Giuliani

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism…

— Dinesh D'Souza

“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

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

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

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

— Andrew Sullivan

“If Barack Obama came to embody America’s history of racial progress, then Donald Trump should come to embody America’s history of racist progress. And…

— Ibram X. Kendi

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

I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I…

— Tavis Smiley

Obama is not an African American president, but a president of all Americans. It doesn't matter if you are black, white, Hispanic, he's the…

— John Lewis