Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought we'd come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.
I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.
I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
I'd never been around or seen a black showrunner, and in some ways you wish that it wasn't a big deal.
There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.
The first black president will be a politician who is black.
Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.
I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of the woman's movement of this country, although I am a woman and I am equally proud of that.
Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.
I always believed there would be an African-American president. It was something I'd dreamed about, thought about, but certainly did not believe would happen in my lifetime.