The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.

To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

In the wider context, what I believe I was - the point I was making was that our life experiences do permit us to see some facts and understand them more easily than others.

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.

In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.