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“The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.”
—Thylias Moss, African American poet. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 1994)

“Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)