15 Inspiring Kamala Harris Quotes

Kamala Harris’s many firsts

Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris is no stranger to breaking barriers. Born in Oakland, California, to immigrant parents—her father from Jamaica, her mother from India—Harris graduated from Howard University and then the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. As she advanced in her law career, she started amassing a series of remarkable firsts: First female district attorney of San Francisco, and the first Black female district attorney of any city in California. Next, she was elected as California’s Attorney General, the first woman and the first Black person to hold the position.

Her glass ceiling-shattering didn’t stop there. In 2016 Harris became just the second Black woman and first South Asian-American elected to the U.S. Senate. And finally, in 2021, she’ll become the first woman, Black person, and South Asian-American to hold the office of Vice President of the United States. In addition to these accomplishments, she remains a voice for girls and young women, particularly those of color, who for the first time have someone who looks like them in the highest offices of the United States government. She doesn’t take her position as a role model lightly, as these inspirational Kamala Harris quotes prove. They will go down as some of the best confidence-boosting quotes from seriously awesome women in history.

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