About Clarence Thomas: Clarence Thomas is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Succeeding Thurgood Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court.
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.
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.
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...
I went into the seminary when I was 16.
I still have a 15¢ sticker on the frame of my law degree. It's tainted, so I just leave it in the basement.
My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.
There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.
When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.
My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.
