I love being famous. It's almost like being white.

Yeah I love being famous. It's almost like being white y'know?

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton his family friends and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.

If you see a black family it's looting but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

No doubt the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family his Ivy League elegance his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.