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" If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions. "

Clarence Thomas

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" Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. "

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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 was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA. "

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" I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that. "

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" My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies. "

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" And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now. "

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