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.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.

I'm thankful I don't have parents that I feel I need to get their attention. They've always been there for me.