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

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

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.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised

My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. "The business is Buzz!" she proclaimed, and indeed so it became.

When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!

I just write when fear overtakes me.

Conduct is the grand test of character. Words are one great evidence of the condition of the heart.

We stand for musical individuality. That's all we stand for.

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

I've learned not to look a gift horse in the mouth. Why you would want to look any horse the mouth considering how infrequently they brush is beyond me.

We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.