I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T and pictures of Fredrick Douglass and I would read. I would go into

the stacks and see all of the newspapers from all over the country. Did I dream that I would be on the Supreme Court? No. But I dreamt that there was a world out there

that was worth pursuing.

                                                                           — Clarence Thomas,

                                                                                 US Supreme Court Justice