Backgrounds Quote by Kevin Sessums

"Shoe" just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.

— Kevin Sessums

I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe."

— Kevin Sessums

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

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing…

— George Bernard Shaw

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

— George W. Bush

The black socks [on me at Olympics in 1968] emphasized the fact that we had so many Blacks and people of color here in…

— John Carlos

On the first day of middle school I wore high-heeled shoes that you weren't allowed to wear. I remember being so embarrassed because in…

— Emma Stone

Shoes have a meaning.

— Claire Denis

I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and…

— Henry Louis Gates

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American.…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I wore a uniform to school, so the white-on-white or black-on-black Air Force 1 Low was the simple sneaker to wear, but it was…

— Bryson Tiller