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.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I see them every other day. It's pretty all-encompassing when I'm on the road.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.