In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.