Francisco jimenez breaking through quotes about strength

Sandy Kaser, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

In my university classes, I sometimes use a strategy called “text rendering,” in which we read aloud a passage from a text or article that we found to be particularly meaningful. Although it is all right to discuss the passages, I personally prefer simply to hear the words and let them stand. I invite you now to hear the words of Francisco Jimenez taken from some of the multiple sources I reviewed in which he speaks in a public forum.

So these are his words to you.

The following quotes were taken from a movie transcript and can be found onwww.teachingbooks.net.

There’s no doubt in my mind that if I hadn’t had certain teachers, I am absolutely sure that I wouldn’t have made it. I wouldn’t have been able to break through the circuit, basically. So for that reason I wrote the book Breaking Through as a tribute to my teachers.My older brother said, “You know, there’s a lot of personal stuff in there, are you sure you want to publish it?” And I said, “Well, you know, I don’t think about these stories as only our family’s stories. They’re the stories of many families.” And he saw that was the right thing to do.From very early on, I was motivated and wanted