"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."

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When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come from, come from Mexico, come from Korea, come from the Philippines, come from Salvador, and were doing really well, it motivates them to do better. The former students give them a vision of what's possible.

— Rafe Esquith