Grew up in the largely black city of Tuskegee, Ala.
"I could go for several days without seeing a white person. All the professionals were black, the doctors, the lawyers, the dentists, the accountants. Tuskegee produces a sense of self and confidence. You are evaluated based upon what you do. You have a chance to succeed or fail based upon talent, not color. When I came home from school with a bad grade, I couldn't tell my parents it was because the teacher did not like me because I was black."
| A quote from New Jersey attorney general Peter C. Harvey, 45, in Chris Hedges' 'Public Lives' profile for the New York Times, "Demanding Respect, and Looking Up to Moses"
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