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

Clarence Thomas

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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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" 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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" You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels. "

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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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" I went into the seminary when I was 16. "

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" When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and had no idea what we were doing in New Math in the ninth grade. But when I went into the seminary, they had gone the traditional route and taught first-year algebra. "

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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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" Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy. "

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" I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it. I was going to be a priest; I'm proud of it. And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now. "

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