Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi . . . has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning.