Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

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.

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

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.