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Poverty Makes It Very Difficult In An Already Competitive World For Kids To Get On A Straight Track Where They Can Actually Love Learning.

People Realize That We're Very Good At Sending People To War, But We're Not Good At Taking Care Of Them. And People Are Coming Back From War Now; Years Ago, They Would Have Been Killed, Now They're Wounded; And They're Coming Back Alive And With Post-traumatic Stress. So, I Think Americans Are Sensible Enough To Know We've Got To Figure Out A Way To Take Care Of Them.

I Love Studying How People Are. Not Just What They're Saying, But How They Are, What They're Doing.

Suddenly In High School, I'm In A Predominantly Jewish Atmosphere. Jewish People Were My Gate To White America.

I Think We Can Learn A Lot About A Person In The Very Moment That Language Fails Them. In The Very Moment They They Have To Be More Creative Than They Would Have Imagined In Order To Communicate. It's The Very Moment That They Have To Dig Deeper Than The Surface To Find Words, And At The Same Time, It's A Moment When They Want To Communicate Very Badly. They're Digging Deep And Projecting Out At The Same Time.