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When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
Approximate author period: c. 1954 AD · modern
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- Sonia Sotomayor
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- Approximate author period: c. 1954 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Sonia Sotomayor: documented birth year 1954; activity date not established. Wikidata Q11107, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11107 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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