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

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

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

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

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

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