Black Quote by Isabel Wilkerson

“She saw a soldier strike a boy ahead of her with his baton. Behind him, a girl turned and spat in the soldier’s face.…

— Madeleine Thien

Now, once again, 2 students left. But of course they're a part of you now.

— Koushun Takami

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

— Gil Scott-Heron

At 16, I went to Smith College in Massachusetts and that was right after the peak of the civil-rights movement and all the rest.…

— Yolanda King

I could do all of my activities at Howard because it was an environment that had essentially rid the ideology of false choices that…

— Kamala Harris

Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to…

— Barack Obama

“...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence…

— Adam J. Banks

There were not many black students at Juilliard, unfortunately. So when you get there, you become very good friends, in particular, with the other…

— Nelsan Ellis

“If there was a single event that galvanized conservative donors to try to wrest control of higher education in America, it might have been…

— Jane Mayer

“A few white children were friendly, but others were hostile or simply distant. Teachers unthinkingly added to both problems by physically separating black students…

— Derrick Bell

No one, and the liberal cognoscenti least of all, wants to look at why, after decades of throwing money at a rotting educational establishment…

— Wesley Pruden

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only…

— Bell Hooks