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.

The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

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.