In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
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.
I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.
In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.