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Having started in sciences, I then turned around and said, 'Oh, I don't want to do sciences. I want to do philosophy.' And to their credit my parents said, 'if that's what you want to do, then go for it'. Then I got the scholarship to Stanford, which was very nice for the parents to talk to their friends about.

I kept on telling my parents school wasn't for me. And they were like, 'No you need to go university.'

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

I went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind up being a lecturer or professor of some sort.