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

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

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

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

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

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