It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. Now I understand that I've gotten to enjoy things that others have not, whether it's the laughter, the poetry of my Spanish language - I love Spanish poetry, because my grandmother loved it - our food, our music. Everything about my culture has given me enormous education and joy.
Sonia SotomayorI got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.
Sonia SotomayorI am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.
Sonia SotomayorIn examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.
Sonia Sotomayor