“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 be culturally black and many other things also – biracial, Ivy League, intellectual, cosmopolitan, temperamentally conservative, presidential.”

“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 be culturally black and many other things also – biracial, Ivy League, intellectual, cosmopolitan, temperamentally conservative, presidential.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates