“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.”
“Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.”
| James Truslow Adams, Historian (1878) |
| Frank Carlucci, Politician (1930) |
| Jean Claude Van Damme, Actor (1960) |
| Zac Efron, Actor (1987) |
| Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer (1831) |
| Charles Babbage, Mathematician (1871) |
| Thomas A. Edison, Inventor (1931) |
| Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher (1955) |
| Walt Kelly, Cartoonist (1973) |