Margaret S. Collins

"I ruined Christmas for everyone because I couldn’t figure out how a reindeer could fly. I mean, they just aren’t built for flying, anyone could see that. So I had to reject either the truthfulness of adults or the conclusions of my own mind."

"Because of my family and our community, my childhood was unique. I never learned what I couldn’t do — as a child, as a woman, or as a black person."

"I had to do what I thought was the most important thing."

"A lot of people opposed our civil rights efforts. I had to do what I thought was the most important thing. That’s all there was to it."