When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.

The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

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

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

As you may know from my life story, my cousin who was my soul mate went to a public school. And he died of AIDS. Would I and my brother have been able to resist the lure of drugs in the surrounding schools? Who knows.

Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.