Black Quote by Edwin Moses

I went to a historically black college.

— John David Washington

I knew a lot of black scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, and female mathematicians and engineers, women of all backgrounds. So this idea that anyone…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

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

— Jay Blades

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

— Mathew Knowles

I was the black kid in school who'd skate and wrestle, who was really into outer space and botany and kung fu and hip-hop.…

— Jermaine Fowler

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

— DeMarcus Cousins

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

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 went to a historically Black college in Mississippi, Jackson State University. I also grew up in a small town that had one stoplight.

— Laphonza Butler

When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in because I…

— Sterling K. Brown

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

— Gil Scott-Heron

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history…

— Chris Rock