Kamala Harris

You may not have been particularly special, but they told you you were and you believed them.

I know that's true for me.

I may not have been particularly special, but I had a few people who told me I was and I believed them.

But with that came, therefore, don't do this thing because you shouldn't be doing that thing, but go in that room.

I think when we talk about

mentorship, when we think about the signals that we as a society send to children, and I mean all of our children, our own children, the children of a community which we should think of as our children, to send them signals that tell them they are special and then back that up with giving them the resources would make us a much stronger society.

It's important to have some sense of conceptually what you mean to say.

And not that you have to rehearse what you're going to speak before you speak it, but do have a sense of what you intend to communicate.

And I think it's also important to, especially with complex issues in the context of a discussion, deconstruct that.

in your mind what the issue is so you can speak logically.

Sadly, it does.

I mean, depending on context.

Sadly, it does.

We are still, I think, in a world where the way you appear when you walk in the room

Impacts first impressions.

Including just, for example, again, even in mentoring people, people will look at their watch or their phone to see if you've walked in the room on time.

And will judge something about your character.

That the piece of how you look that is going to suggest the pride that one has in themselves, right?

As a matter of self-respect.

I mean, I've always, this is, you know, I grew up in the black church.