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

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

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.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.