Constance Baker Motley

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

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

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

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.

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.