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This inequity in our country's education system has never stopped seeming like one of our most chronic problems.

— Julian Castro An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream (2018)

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I guess I would have to explain the difference between Mexican and Cuban, you know?

I realized that I would be much better off just being myself around people. That way I'd attract friends who liked the real me, not some person I was trying to be.

An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream (2018)

College is fantastic for a variety of reasons, but that opportunity to bond with people of very different backgrounds, to pull knowledge-big and small-from such a diverse pool, is invaluable, especially in the formative years.

An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream (2018)

Embrace your own unlikely journey.

An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream (2018)

we, as Americans, are more alike than different.

An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream (2018)

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