Issa Rae Quotes

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

I wasn't into going to college for four years and that whole dorm thing. I had such an aversion to it. It's an extended vacation, isn't it?

The truth of the matter is, I am a black woman, and I am an actor. I don't try to get caught up in being a black actor; I'm just an actor who is a black woman. It's not about forgetting that you're black, but you don't need to be hammered over the head, either; it just is what it is.

My freshman year of college, 'The Hunger Games' movie adaptation came out, and I was really excited about it. This was maybe 2011. I loved it, but there was a lot of hateful backlash against the black characters in the film.

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.

It's important, as a young person of color, to see yourself reflected in the media.

I was telling some of my friends that I really wish college did pay because then you have an opportunity to have fun in college and enjoy college life and have a comfortable living.

I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those things, so it is frustrating, to a degree, to be limited by other people's perceptions of me, but at the same time, it is true that I am a black guy, and, you know, it's like I'm rooted in but not bound by.

I resent that I have to prove that I'm black.

What I remember about race relations in the 1990s is that you showed your awareness by saying you didn't see race, that you were colour-blind.

I think each college experience is different for everyone.

Obviously, college was an unbelievable experience.

A college experience is something everyone should have. Going to Waffle House late at night. Or the gym at midnight, until the wee hours of the morning. Just being kids. Hanging out.

I didn't just work at a hardware store. I went to college for a second, and I worked there on breaks or during the summer.

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

Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.

I always think about race as a part of one's identity, not the whole of one's identity. You don't want it to be the defining characteristic of a character. There has to be more.

Coming to Harvard was an eye-opening experience because there's so much diversity on campus.

College, by far, was the best time of my life. Just being able to go there right now and not worry about paying bills and all that and just having fun.

In many ways, I was a typical young guy out of college. I was at Oxford, where every night there'd be a late showing of some great film.

When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.

Just being a college student in general is something I'll miss.

I didn't get a normal school life, and my sisters have told me so many fun stories about college, so I'm just so excited.