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If everyone in your class has heroes and they can relate to them in textbooks and literature, and then you don't see any of your heritage there, you feel less than. And I always wanted to be able to make Latin kids like myself feel more 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.

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.

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.

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