If the students at Wellesley didn't know this before their last moments of high school, I am glad McCullough was there to help them out before life taught them that lesson in less forgiving ways.

CNN: Kid, you are not special

And before I knew it, you know, when I'm graduating high school, I've been doing something that I loved since you know, I was seven years old and it basically cultivated a dream for me.

NPR: Acting Students Ready for Their Next Role

One important factor in the poverty rate that we see - the high poverty rate goes back to what I said before, that there are significant numbers of Asian-Americans who did not complete a high school diploma, so that's a factor.

NPR: Asian-Americans: Smart, High-Incomes And ... Poor?

We drove past my old high school: there were bars on the windows where there hadn't been before I went to prison, armed uniformed guards out front where be-fore there'd been old-lady hall monitors with whistles, and I imagined that the bars and the guards were there to protect the students from me and not some teenage crazy in a trench coat stuffed with home-made ordnance.

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