“I was an English major in college who concentrated in African-American...” — John Legend Quote

“I was an English major in college who concentrated in African-American literature and culture. So I read quite a few slave narratives and stories of escape, and I grew up in Ohio, which was a common stop on the Underground Railroad.”

“John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.”

“Dr. King was unpopular while he was alive - he's only popular now because he's dead and not a threat to anyone.”

“As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down, never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.”

“With President Trump, we've seen the lowest ever African-American and Hispanic unemployment.”

“Ali was the African-American who exulted in saying exactly what he was capable of, and the bouncing-boy braggadocio of hip-hop is impossible to imagine without him. So it makes sense that one of his spiritual children, the sunny-dispositioned rapper turned actor Will Smith, would play him.”