 And I grew up in a poor, racially segregated community, but my mother went into debt to buy us the World Book Encyclopedia because she thought there was power in those books that showed us a bigger world than the world we could see. You know, I went to Harvard Law School. I'd never met a lawyer until I got to law school. But I had this generation of readers. I had a great-grandfather who believed in the hope of freedom, a grandmother who believed in the hope of education, a mother who gave me the hope.