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.

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.

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.

Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film.