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"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
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"I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else."
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"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."
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"Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?"
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"For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'"
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"America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive."
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"One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming."
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"Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test."
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"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes."
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"I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors."
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"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life."
Life
"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."
Living
"The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished."
Fact
"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."
Thought
"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."
Writing
"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."
Sexuality
"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."
Family
"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."
Time
"How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?"
Equality
"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."
Chance
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