“I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.”
“No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.”
| Charles Mengel Allen, Judge (1916) |
| Hoagy Carmichael, Composer (1899) |
| Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian (1921) |
| George Eliot, Author (1819) |
| Shawn Fanning, Businessman (1980) |
| Charles De Gaulle, Leader (1890) |
| Terry Gilliam, Director (1940) |
| George Gissing, Novelist (1857) |
| Peter Hall, Director (1930) |
| Scarlett Johansson, Actress (1984) |
| Luis Barragan, Architect (1988) |
| Arthur Eddington, Scientist (1944) |
| John Gilling, Director (1984) |
| Henry Hampton, Activist (1998) |
| Lorenz Hart, (1943) |
| John F. Kennedy, President (1963) |