I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished
In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman
New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.