"My mother... would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, 'I don't know what's wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?' You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you."
American politician and attorney who served as the 49th vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. She previously served in the U.S. Senate and as attorney general of California. She is the first woman and first person of Black and South Asian heritage to serve as U.S. vice president.