Blackness Quote by Michelle Obama

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter…

— Michelle Obama

I never had a moment of realization about my blackness - I just was. Blackness was a central thread of my experience as a…

— Angela Rye

One of the things I loved about Harvard was finding a sizable Black community that really made me feel like I had found my…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors…

— Amanda Seales

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

Even though Blackness isn't a monolith, there are things that for Black people in the U.S. and globally are shared experiences. I think that…

— Ayo Edebiri

I went to a historically black college.

— John David Washington

The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This…

— Jessica Williams

Not only did I always know I was black, I always knew we were and are beautiful, culturally rich, and creators of everything from…

— Angela Rye

A generation earlier, I think that somebody from my background probably would not have felt fully comfortable at a college like Princeton. But, by…

— Samuel Alito

Princeton ignited my intellectual curiosity and introduced me to a new social world. It... challenged me on the most fundamental levels imaginable. It was…

— Bill Bradley

As a black person, I'm used to going to places in which I might be the only black person that shows up there. This…

— Kerry James Marshall