Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.
Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House.
I've interviewed the president in the White House. I'd interviewed major newsmakers and Hollywood actors.
The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower... in the White House.
Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show.
Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.
I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.
Grumpy: [During "Someday My Prince Will Come"] Ha! Mush.
Queen: I'll fix ya! I'll crush your bones!
The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.
This is where I go, when I go: It's a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that are thin enough for me to see and hear everything but too thick to break through. I'm there, but I'm not there. I am pounding to be let out, but nobody can hear m...
VISIONS OF GRANDEUR I'm walking through a sheet of glass instead of the door, Flying over a giant candlestick lighting up Central Park, Repeating two courses at Hard Knock's College, And swimming through the Red Sea with silky jelly fish. I'm hopping...
It hadn't occurred to me that my mother would die. Until she was dying, the thought had never entered my mind. She was monolithic and insurmountable, the keeper of my life. She would grow old and still work in the garden. This image was fixed in my m...
All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as having importance were white men. I didn't mind that they were men, or even white men. What I did mind was t...
Just as hunters will mount the heads of the kills, white people need to let people know that they have made their way to hundreds or even thousands of books. After all, what's the point of reading a book if people don't know you've read it. It's like...
The umbrella was made for rainy days, the white man uses it for the sun.
Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
"But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole th...
