Black Quote by Mathew Knowles Download Open image “I grew up in a small town and never went to a Black school.” — Mathew Knowles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Black Never School Small town Up
I grew up in a rough area, went to an all-black school, public school. — DeMarcus Cousins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood. My high school and my junior high school were both predominantly black. — Dawn Staley Copy Share Image
I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I went to a school that was predominantly white, and I was one of the first wave of black kids. — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
I was black, studying physics and engineering. I was from a small school nobody ever heard of. — Edwin Moses Copy Share Image
The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family. — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have a lot… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together. Everybody was… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee. — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I've been an educator all my life pretty much. It's important as a manager and also as a record label, to educate your artists… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
My father was a truck driver, made $50 a week. And the reason why I know that so vividly is my Mom used to… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
I was a stage dad. When I was with Earth, Wind and Fire, I was their stage dad - the O'Jays, I was the… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
I actually thought when I met Tina, my former wife, that she was White. Later I found out that she wasn't, and she was… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
Kids watch their parents, right? And when kids are three, four, five-years-old, that's when they're like a sponge, and who they are is really… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
See, my philosophy is had Beyonce or Solange came to me and said Dad, I want to be a doctor. My personality is how… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
I am a co-writer of 'Survivor,' so there's publishing that I'll receive for some of the records. — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
The thing with R Kelly was, he liked to record late at night, around midnight. And what was different with his studio was that… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
Only one percent of artists are really profitable and successful. Beyonce is one‑tenth of one percent. When we talk about what she can do,… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
It's nobody's business how much I see my daughter or my grandkids, that's something personal that I care not to share. — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
The decision for Beyonce and Music World Entertainment to part was mutual. We did great things together, and I know that she will continue… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black people... The question for black people is not, when is the white man going to give us our rights, or when is he going to give us good education for our children, or when is he… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy of Clay, the protagonist in LeRoi Jones’ (aka Amiri Baraka’s) play Dutchman. You’d better be glad Charlie Parker could play him some horn and Bessie Smith could sing, because if they didn’t make music they… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share
Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's getting better - it's not only for blacks, but for people that are of all different skin colors. It is very important that black independent films get seen. We need to start getting used to black… — John Boyega Copy Share
