DeRay Mckesson Quotes

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

This is college?' Schyler asked. 'or Downton Abbey?

I didn't go to college, but if I did, I would've taken all my tests at a restaurant, 'cause 'The customer is always right'.

I loved the college experience of studying.

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

If I did want to go back to school, I'd want to go to Loyola Marymount University over in, I believe, Morina, or Pepperdine. Those are just beautiful campuses. I know that's probably not the right reason to go school. The campuses are just stunning.

I had always dreamed of living in Chapel Hill. When I was a college student at Hollins University in Virginia, I came down to Chapel Hill for summer school and just loved it.

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable.

I was lucky enough to go to boarding school for my high school years, and I had all the resources that I possibly could needed - squash courts and every book you ever would have wanted, every art supply.

When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.

I came to Nashville to go to Belmont. I went to school to be a student.

A lot of students who are 18 or 19 go to college partly for the social aspect of it. At the community college, people's goals are a little different. Their needs are more immediate.

I loved my experience in college.

I think each college experience is different for everyone.

There was a sketch group at Emerson, and if you could believe it, we were the cool kids. That's how Emerson rolls. I was a film major, but I spent most of my time doing that.

The chips fall into place, but the educational experience I had at Cal, second to none.

When I was in Trinity, at least for the first couple of years, I didn't really interact with anyone who wasn't in Trinity. A lot of the years, I lived on campus.