Brown University Quotes:

Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring to struggling students, but, as any academic Dean will tell you, it's up to the students to seek it out, something that a drowning minority student will seek to avoid at all costs, fearing it will trumpet a second-class status.

- Ron Suskind

topic: Sink Or Swim, Class Status, Brown University

One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.

- Lisa Loeb

topic: Expectations, Musician, Brown, Brown University

Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.

- Tracee Ellis Ross

source: Source: www.marieclaire.com

topic: Years, Class, Acting, Acting Classes, Brown University

My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. That didn't seem to be in the nature of - in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. They were - we had a cousin that went to - off to Brown University. It was like a nuclear explosion took place.

- Bruce Springsteen

source: "Bruce Springsteen: On Jersey, Masculinity And Wishing To Be His Stage Persona". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, radio.krcb.org. September 15, 2017.

topic: Cousin, Dad, War, Brown University

I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.

- Stephen Karam

topic: Reading, Play, Knowing, Wasps, Brown University