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• ‟ It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So I'm supposed to think a certain way. I'm supposed to have certain opinions. I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them.

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• ‟ I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.

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• ‟ People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

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• ‟ The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

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• ‟ I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run.

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• ‟ My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

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• ‟ My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and critics who make statements that are unfounded. That doesn't mean that people shouldn't have constructive criticisms, but it should be constructive.

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• ‟ I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.

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• ‟ It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous.

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• ‟ There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

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