You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another face of the prejudice that would deny them a chance to even try. It is the same prejudice that insists all those destined for success must be cast from the same mold as those who have succeeded before them, a view that experience has already proven a fallacy.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

how many times would a defendant's lawyer enter the courtroom before a session and ask each of the male clerks and paralegals around me, 'Are you the assistant in charge?' while I sat there invisible to him at the head of the table?

I savor life. When you have anything that threatens life... it prods you into stepping back and really appreciating the value of life and taking from it what you can.