Great Regulars: Richard Blanco: I will say--

I mean, I will say, in a word, unity.

I think that's something that's always been on my mind since trying to fit in since I was a kid, since I was a Cuban American kid and that sense of . . .

Jeffrey Brown: Trying to fit into what?

Richard Blanco: To what is the American ideal or what I thought was the American ideal.

from Jeffrey Brown: PBS: Newshour: Inauguration Poet Richard Blanco Hopes to Offer Words of Unity, Belonging

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