For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977

I see myself as an educator.

I became the messenger who had to be killed

I have - often say to people that you really don't get to decide your own legacy. I mean, what you do is, you try to be your own authentic self. And then people decide how they're going to interpret that and what it means to them.

we need to turn the question around to look at the harasser, not the target. We need to be sure that we can go out and look anyone who is a victim of harassment in the eye and say, 'You do not have to remain silent anymore.

When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.

In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since