I love being in a courtroom.

You got to take care of yourself. If I exercise or I eat proper foods, am I indulging myself? That's called feeding your body.

I could do all of my activities at Howard because it was an environment that had essentially rid the ideology of false choices that I feel absolutely constricts young black students.

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

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.

You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.

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