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

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

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

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.

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

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

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

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

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Skills can be trained, character is inbred.

She's the gristle stuck between Time's teeth, and I love her for it.

I have worked all my life wanted to work all my life needed to work all my life.

Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

I've been at the place where it seems like the only way left is down.

I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong

We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.

Sad to hear of Paul Scholes retirement! One of the best midfielders to grace the Premiership! Idolised him for years! Legend.

This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do.