Constance Baker Motley

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

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

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

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.

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.

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.