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You see all these white heroes, everybody is white, all the literature classes—your Shakespeare, your poetry — everybody’s white, and you start to feel less than.

— John Leguizamo

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He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.

Education is the first step to empowerment.

He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he's always operating.

Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.

There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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