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

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

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.

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

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

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

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