College Quote by Laphonza Butler

I went to a historically black college.

— John David Washington

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

— DeMarcus Cousins

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

— Mathew Knowles

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

— Gil Scott-Heron

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

— Edwin Moses

When I was in college, I lived in a mostly black, poor neighborhood. That's where I grew up, but I attended a mostly white…

— Angie Thomas

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 went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.

— Trishelle Cannatella

I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia - a kinda lower-middle-class area.

— Keri Hilson

I grew up in Orangeburg, South Carolina, which has the proud distinction of being the home to two of the eight Historically Black Colleges…

— Jaime Harrison

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

— Jay Blades