I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker... Judging requires a certain impartiality.

I don't really have the luxury to be bitter. I don't have the luxury of having negative things in my life.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.