"We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

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"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."

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"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."

Richard Thompson, British Musician

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"Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful."

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Larry Holmes, American Athlete

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"Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go."

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"And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world."

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"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."

"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."

"Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful."

"My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good."

"I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich."

"Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go."

"And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world."

"Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12."

"OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him."

"It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new."

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

"In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease."

"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."

"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."

"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."

"The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath."