Quotes About Black Colleges

#1. During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

Michael N. Castle

#2. There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

Walter Dean Myers

#3. Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

Constance Baker Motley

#4. 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 natural step after high school.

Michael N. Castle

#5. Enrollment in colleges, especially black colleges, across the country increased tremendously during the five-year run of 'A Different World,' and I don't think you could have a better legacy than that.

Glynn Turman

#6. I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.

Terrence J

#7. If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?

W.E.B. Du Bois

#8. All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

Constance Baker Motley

#9. Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.

Ric Keller