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Constance Baker Motley

"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."

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Donna Grant

"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

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Donna Grant

"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."

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Donna Grant

"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."

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Donna Grant

"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."

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Donna Grant

"My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother."

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Donna Grant

"Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love."

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Donna Grant

"Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen."

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Donna Grant

"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

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Donna Grant

"What makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth..."

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Donna Grant

"The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword."

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Constance Baker Motley
"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white."

Life

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Constance Baker Motley
"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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Constance Baker Motley
"We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism."

Racism

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Constance Baker Motley
"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."

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

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Constance Baker Motley
"The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant."

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

Now

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Constance Baker Motley
"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life."

Life

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Constance Baker Motley
"King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience."

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Constance Baker Motley
"How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?"

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