Black Quote by Nina Simone

I went to a historically black college.

— John David Washington

I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

— Godfrey

I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.

— Chaske Spencer

I went to a predominantly white secondary school and experienced a lot of hate and racism.

— Jay Blades

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as…

— Halle Berry

Going to college was really affirming for me, meeting other people like me, other mixed people who had mixed life experience. And that's when…

— Myha'la

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

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

So I was really excited when I came to America about meeting black people. But it was a huge culture shock, because I was…

— Jodie Turner-Smith

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities…

— Larry Doby

I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older,…

— Robert Guillaume

There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking…

— Walter Dean Myers