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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.

College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

It was a given at UCSB that if there was a role that called for a person of color, it was going to be handed to me. There were certain times when maybe I didn't try as hard. Going to Yale was a way more diverse experience.

I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.

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

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

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.

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

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

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.