My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
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.
And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
I went into the seminary when I was 16.
I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.