Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.

Diabetes taught me discipline.

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

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.

I accept the proposition that...“to judge is an exercise of power” and because...“there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives – no neutrality, no escape from choice in judging,” I further accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions.

I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.