No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people.

None of the candidates are ever perfect, ok? Then you have to get them in there and you have to hold them accountable. You have to make noises.

Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.