Constance Baker Motley

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

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

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.

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.

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