Black lives matter Quote by Brett Cooper

I got involved in the political arena in college, protesting the Vietnam War, and became friends with some of the activists at the University…

— Mazie Hirono

I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

— Godfrey

I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me down. And…

— Nina Simone

I was a lost child. I wasn't accepted in the black community because I was Korean, and I wasn't accepted in the Korean community…

— Hines Ward

If I talk to black students on campus, they're not sympathetic to the people who are not sympathetic with [Black Lives Matter movement]. The…

— Victor Davis Hanson

I got involved in politics in order to help working people in my community - especially the Black people who had gotten the short…

— Vernon Jones

I went to a predominantly white secondary school and experienced a lot of hate and racism.

— Jay Blades

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

— Constance Baker Motley

At some point, I talked about how I had never graduated college. I dropped out my sophomore year to start MercyMe 21 years ago.…

— Bart Millard

I had white family members, black family members, white friends, black friends by the time I was 16.

— Vic Mensa

I went to a historically black college.

— John David Washington

I grew up in the era of the desegregation program. I actually got bussed to a predominately white high school. I didn't have a…

— Herm Edwards