Her parents were well-off. They both had good jobs, a nice place. They grabbed everybody and sent them back.

There's more of a necessity to work with minorities, period.

I don't know how he did it, but he got the money for me to go back to school. He was very, very supportive.

My mom was already a U.S. citizen, and that made it easier for everybody else. But we were a family of laborers. We picked grapes, peaches, walnuts, almonds.

When you're looking at someone at the lower end, you're sometimes looking at parents who are working two jobs, maybe three. Time is limited, and transportation. You can't just get up and drive your student across town to school.

Everyone is pulled in too many directions. Parents have multiple jobs, kids are involved in lots of activities.