Black people Quote by Chirlane McCray

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women…

— Madeleine Albright

I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor…

— Geoffrey Canada

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a…

— Jackie Robinson

I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated and had…

— Lisa Kleypas

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

I went to a historically black college.

— John David Washington

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation,…

— Karen Finerman

I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Emerson in Boston, and I was…

— Nolan North

I first moved to New York, like many twenty-somethings before me, to be a grown up. I was attending an MFA program in the…

— Rebecca Serle

Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love literature and…

— Robert Greene

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 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