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Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#badge #big #big deal #both #conventional

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#away #black #blacks #colleges #doing

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#argue #arising #before #capital #case

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#enough #extent #i #legal #live

In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#bench #did #federal #get #i

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#born #georgia #having #king #reared

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#down #encouragement #i #kind #lack

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#because #been #city #cosmopolitan #creole

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#black #carolina #college #college level #last

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#except #had #i #movement #rights