Friends Quote by Sterling K. Brown

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

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next…

— Michael N. Castle

I was black, studying physics and engineering. I was from a small school nobody ever heard of.

— Edwin Moses

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

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

— Jay Blades

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

— Michael Eric Dyson

All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.

— Jimmy Smith

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 went to an all-white school in high school.

— Bradley Beal

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

— Jayson Blair

I'd never carried on a conversation with a black until college.

— Howie Long