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.

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

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.

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