Education Quote by Jackie Robinson

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

— Jayson Blair

I went to a historically black college.

— John David Washington

I went to Wellesley College, and it was really hard for me to get a job after I graduated. I would go into places…

— Chirlane McCray

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 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

I was told I wasn't black enough for certain jobs because of the way I speak and carry myself and because I was raised…

— Reg E. Cathey

Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs…

— Barack Obama

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

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

— Edwin Moses

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other…

— Bessie Coleman

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