I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.

I didn't know I had a sense of limitation until I got into the greater world.

Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can.

I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

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.