Vice President Kamala Harris didn't hold back as she fired up the crowd at the Asian-Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies on Monday with a well-placed F-bomb. Harris was talking about breaking barriers; she would know little about that as she became our country's first woman Vice President. She was also the first Black American and South Asian American to be elected to that position, so she broke a few glass ceilings. As an F-bomb terrorist, I can appreciate one that's used during an inspiring speech.
"It is, as Alicia said, my mother would say to me, don't you ever let anybody tell you who you are," Harris said. "You tell them who you are. Don't ever carry as a personal burden your capacity to do whatever you dream and aspire to do based on other people's limited ability to see who can do what."
"This is part of what's involved, is that we have to know that sometimes people will open the door for you and leave it open," she continued. "Sometimes they won't. And then you need to kick that fucking door down."
"Excuse my language," she added.
"We're going to make t-shirts with that saying, kick the fucking door down," the host said. "I mean, I literally just got emotional listening to that. I think all of us in this room have that experience."
