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

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.

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.

A life I didn't choose chose me.

Obstacles without optimism can overturn opportunities for growth, hope and success.

The main dry storage room of Sin du Jour is filled with a light unseen on Earth since a time of abject innocence.And that was long ago, indeed.

In the agenda of empty countries, there exists only empty matters!

People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?

I think I have learned to really get out of the mathematical side of myself that looks at story and story structure and go with, "Okay, well, what would people do in real life?"

Do this research if we don't have a season -- watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game.

I have my faith and my principles, and this is what makes me who I am. If the person loves me, he'll love my God too.