If the issue is letting the states experiment and letting the society have more time to figure out its direction, why is taking a case now the answer?

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1.

An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.

One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met. More of the world knows about me now and follows me in a way that never happened before. I didn't want me, the inside of me, to change. Because I liked Sonia, the Sonia who has been. So another reason for writing the book was to hold on to that - whatever the best in Sonia was, to try to capture it.

I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.