Constance Baker Motley

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.

I am and always will be a leader.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.