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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

I come from a very working-class background.

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.

I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.

I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.

I come from a family of working professionals: my dad is a chartered accountant, and my mom is a professor.

My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.