City Quote by Mike Espy

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk,…

— Jonathan Brandis

I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let four people…

— Raf Simons

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history…

— Chris Rock

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

— Bradley Beal

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into…

— Bryan Stevenson

School had two big influences on me. First, the racism I received - being called names and having eight people out to get me…

— Jay Blades

My mother helped to integrate the local elementary school in the nineteen-sixties.

— Jesmyn Ward

At Libertyville High, I was a bad student, chronic truant, and all-round incorrigible. I was forever being sent to the principal's office to be…

— Marlon Brando

The school I went to was a little farm school in Wannaska, student body 61 or something. There was a kid, the only black…

— Garrett Hedlund

Growing up in Flint, Michigan, I saw so many kids from my school end up in jail or unemployed, and gangs would hang out…

— Claressa Shields

I lived across the street from my elementary school, and in the schoolyard we could always go play there and know we were safe.

— Rasheed Wallace

I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.

— Melissa Joan Hart