High school Quote by Jim Brown

The three greatest people in my life as a young person were white, my high school superintendent, my high school coach and a -…

— Jim Brown

The three greatest people in my life as a young person were white. I'm not a person that really deals in color.

— Jim Brown

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

— Bradley Beal

I was from a town called Manhasset, very nice town out on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, but there was a…

— Ken Howard

I grew up in an all-white community.

— Gayle King

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 one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish…

— Janis Ian

The people I passed every morning as I walked up the school's steps were full of hate. They were white, but so was my…

— Ruby Bridges

I had the two best teachers in the world. That was my family.

— Edward Albert

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

— Gil Scott-Heron

I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up…

— Walter Dean Myers

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

— Jay Blades