African american Quote by Ryan Coogler

I'm very fortunate. I loved school and, when I went there, race, gangs and violence were not issues. There was a feeling, gone now,…

— David Harewood

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

— Mathew Knowles

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

— DeMarcus Cousins

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

I grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood. My high school and my junior high school were both predominantly black.

— Dawn Staley

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

— Gil Scott-Heron

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

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

— Jay Blades

Once my school was integrated, and I was there with white kids and a few black kids, it really didn't matter to us what…

— Ruby Bridges

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

Growing up as a young black girl in Potomac, Maryland was easy. I had a Rainbow Coalition of friends of all ethnicities, and we…

— Issa Rae