The first black president will be a politician who is black.

- Douglas Wilder

Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, …

- Douglas Wilder

Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living …

- Douglas Wilder

Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

- Douglas Wilder

Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little.

- Douglas Wilder

Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.

- Douglas Wilder

There will be those who will tell you that you can't make it because of how you look, because of the way you talk. We all have heard that - I almost …

- Douglas Wilder

If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.

- Douglas Wilder

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? Wh…

- Douglas Wilder