I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and findi
I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'

