Ayanna Pressley: “share a book with you. It's. It's entitled Ambitious Girl…”

“All right, who's ready for a story? All right, so today we're going to share a book with you. It's. It's entitled Ambitious Girl. And it is by the author, the person who wrote this book. Her name is Mina Harris. And the person who illustrated it is Marissa Valdez. Yeah. Now, you know, that's a lot. So these are some of the words that sometimes people will say about all of us.” (00:30–00:41)

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