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Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, My Grandfather's Son is the story of one of America's most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, told in his own words. Thomas was born in rural Georgia on June 23, 1948, into a life marked by... read more
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“I began to suspect that Daddy had been right all along: the only hope I had of changing the world was to change myself first. p. 60”
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“"'Old Man Can't is dead--I helped bury him,' he said time and again. It wasn't easy for us to accept his unbending rules, but we did it anyway; he gave us no choice."”
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“"I took as my motto a saying of Bobby Knight, then Indiana University's men's basketball coach: 'Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.'"”
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