I was a very shy kid. In 8th grade, I had a teacher who…

My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a…

— Edward P. Jones

I was the only mixed-race girl in my school, but for me, that was a positive thing; it made me unique. If it wasn't…

— Alesha Dixon

That joyful moment when you and your friend get the same grade as you.

— Unkown

In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to…

— Jess Walter

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was…

— Alan Ritchson

I've been home-schooled since I was in the fifth grade, mainly because I had two brothers who were acting. We were from Kansas but…

— Kevin Schmidt

At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.

— Bernice King

The people I passed every morning as I walked up the school's steps were full of hate. They were white, but so was my…

— Ruby Bridges

My biggest phobia is spiders. When I was in second grade, one of my classmates got bitten. That did it for me.

— Vanna White

I shaved my eyebrows in 10th grade.

— Jeffree Star

Most people give Kennedy a passing grade, a good grade on the Cuban Missile Crisis handling, but what they don't realize, if he had…

— Louie Gohmert

When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid by the…

— Jesmyn Ward

“Nobody cared if you plagiarized in the third grade. All”

— Jonathan Janz

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

— Ed Bradley

My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family.

— Chirlane McCray