see yourself in a way that others might not see you, simply because

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Kamala Harris said in her victory speech as follows:

Dream with ambition, lead with conviction, and see yourself in a way that others might not see you,
simply because they've never seen it before.

What does she mean by the last part which reads “see yourself in a way that others might not see you, simply because they’ve never seen it before?”

BoldBen · Answer

It is a sort of reverse reference to the Robert Burns poem "To a Louse" which says

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us // To see oursels as ithers see us!

or in standard English

Oh would some Power give us the gift // To see ourselves as others see us!

What Harris is saying is that you should believe that you can transcend the limitations placed on you by other people's perception of you. In other words "Don't let other people's prejudices define you".

see yourself in a way that others might not see you, simply because

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