After my election there was talk of a postracial America. And such a vision, however well intended, was never realistic.
Barack ObamaThe first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to elect its own representatives and have some political power on Capitol Hill.
Barack ObamaI kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBoisโs learning and Baldwinโs love and Langstonโs humor eventually succumbed to its corrosive force, each man finally forced to doubt artโs redemptive power, each man finally forced to withdraw, one to Africa, one to Europe, one deeper into the bowels of Harlem, but all of them in the same weary flight, all of them exhausted, bitter men, the devil at their heels.
Barack Obama