I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.

What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

Everyone's perspective of themselves and others is based on the limitations of their exposure.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

No woman should be told she can't make her own decisions about her body. If women's reproductive rights come under attack, I will be standing up for women.

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

As was often the case, Magic just chuckled and kicked physics in the balls, leaving it groaning and wondering what just happened.

Those aren't doors, and they're not opening. Those are crypts, Richie. They're cracking open and the vampires you thought were dead are all flying out again.

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.

My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before.

Let me do all the good I can, to all the people I can, as often as I can, for I shall not pass this way again.

We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.

In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.