I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.


You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler (ed. 1953)


I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to...

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to...

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to...

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to...