#on

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#being #bugs #educated #how #i

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#could #education #frugal #grandfather #grandmother

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#attitude #freedom #fulfilled #gave #grandfather

Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#always #anybody #attitude #been #done

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

— Clarence Thomas

#black #created #grew #myths #people

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. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#doing #gone #grade #had #i

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. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#bit #blacks #bottom #crime #educate

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#always #cheap #choices #continue #could

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#appear #bad #certainty #conviction #harsh

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#african-american #bronze #complain #get #got