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title: "20 Black Students Quotes by 19 authors"
description: "Browse 20 Black Students quotes by 19 authors. Discover the best Black Students sayings and thoughts."
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> [We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-biko/we-must-realise-that-prophetic-cry-of-black-students-black-man-you/)

[Steven Biko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-biko/)

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> [All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/constance-baker-motley/all-southern-state-colleges-and-universities-are-open-to-black/)

[Constance Baker Motley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/constance-baker-motley/)

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> [I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gil-scott-heron/i-was-one-of-the-first-three-black-students-to-go-to-an-all-white/)

[Gil Scott-Heron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gil-scott-heron/)

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> [“But black students were left on their own.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-wilkerson/but-black-students-were-left-on-their-own/)

[Isabel Wilkerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-wilkerson/)

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> [There were not many black students at Juilliard, unfortunately. So when you get there, you become very good friends, in particular, with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelsan-ellis/there-were-not-many-black-students-at-juilliard-unfortunately-so-when/)

[Nelsan Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelsan-ellis/)

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> [As a child I didn't understand why there were no black students in dance schools: classmates and teachers made me feel different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michaela-deprince/as-a-child-i-didn-t-understand-why-there-were-no-black-students-in/)

[Michaela DePrince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michaela-deprince/)

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> [ But all was not sunshine and Marvin Gaye songs. \[UCLA\] also recruited black students as part of a High Potential Program that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kareem-abdul-jabbar/but-all-was-not-sunshine-and-marvin-gaye-songs-ucla-also-recruited/)

[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kareem-abdul-jabbar/)

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> [“A few white children were friendly, but others were hostile or simply distant. Teachers unthinkingly added to both problems by physically separating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-bell/a-few-white-children-were-friendly-but-others-were-hostile-or-simply/)

[Derrick Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-bell/)

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> [At 16, I went to Smith College in Massachusetts and that was right after the peak of the civil-rights movement and all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yolanda-king/at-16-i-went-to-smith-college-in-massachusetts-and-that-was-right/)

[Yolanda King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yolanda-king/)

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> [In fact, black students with college degrees are twice as likely to be unemployed as white students with college degrees. So, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-wiley/in-fact-black-students-with-college-degrees-are-twice-as-likely-to-be/)

[Maya Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-wiley/)

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> [I could do all of my activities at Howard because it was an environment that had essentially rid the ideology of false…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kamala-harris/i-could-do-all-of-my-activities-at-howard-because-it-was-an/)

[Kamala Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kamala-harris/)

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> [If I talk to black students on campus, they're not sympathetic to the people who are not sympathetic with \[Black Lives Matter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-davis-hanson/if-i-talk-to-black-students-on-campus-they-re-not-sympathetic-to-the/)

[Victor Davis Hanson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-davis-hanson/)

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> [No one, and the liberal cognoscenti least of all, wants to look at why, after decades of throwing money at a rotting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-pruden/no-one-and-the-liberal-cognoscenti-least-of-all-wants-to-look-at-why/)

[Wesley Pruden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-pruden/)

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> [I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bell-hooks/i-m-so-disturbed-when-my-women-students-behave-as-though-they-can/)

[Bell Hooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bell-hooks/)

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> [“...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-j-banks/anyone-still-attempting-to-argue-that-ebonics-is-a-problem-for-black/)

[Adam J. Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-j-banks/)

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> [Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/later-i-would-realize-that-the-position-of-most-black-students-in/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [“If there was a single event that galvanized conservative donors to try to wrest control of higher education in America, it might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/if-there-was-a-single-event-that-galvanized-conservative-donors-to/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

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> [“We were three hours from Chicago, so my blackness was less of a curiosity, more of a threat. And there were the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/we-were-three-hours-from-chicago-so-my-blackness-was-less-of-a/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

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> [“Black newspapers and their readers wasted no time in making the link between America’s inadequacy in space and the dreadful conditions facing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margot-lee-shetterly/black-newspapers-and-their-readers-wasted-no-time-in-making-the-link/)

[Margot Lee Shetterly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margot-lee-shetterly/)

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> [“As with most voluntary school integration programs, dispersal of the black children was the norm. In Portland, no more than forty-five black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-bell/as-with-most-voluntary-school-integration-programs-dispersal-of-the/)

[Derrick Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-bell/)

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