Beach Quote by Chris Rock

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

— Gil Scott-Heron

I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

— Ruby Bridges

I grew up in a rough area, went to an all-black school, public school.

— DeMarcus Cousins

I went to a historically black college.

— John David Washington

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

— Michael Eric Dyson

I went to a school that was predominantly white, and I was one of the first wave of black kids.

— Jay Blades

I went to an all-white school in high school.

— Bradley Beal

I grew up in a small town and never went to a Black school.

— Mathew Knowles

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

The school I went to was a little farm school in Wannaska, student body 61 or something. There was a kid, the only black…

— Garrett Hedlund

I was black, studying physics and engineering. I was from a small school nobody ever heard of.

— Edwin Moses

At University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, I was one of the first Blacks there. I didn't go to a Black school until my junior…

— Mathew Knowles