Michelle Obama Quote

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. Regardless of the circumstances under which I interact with Whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be Black first and a student second.


"Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community", senior thesis, Princeton University (1985), p. 14-15 quoted in "Michelle Obama thesis was on racial divide" by Jeffrey Ressner at Politico.com (23 February 2008)


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...

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...

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...

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...