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.

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.

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