--- title: "4 Indians Quotes By Richard Rodriguez" description: "4 Indians quotes by Richard Rodriguez. Plus more from Richard Rodriguez and more Indians sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/005/richard-rodriguez-6515_america_the-myth-of-the-dead-indian-goes-back-to_1042028.png" --- > [The myth of the dead Indian goes back to the Protestant settlement of the U.S. The Pilgrims wanted to start a new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rodriguez/the-myth-of-the-dead-indian-goes-back-to-the-protestant-settlement-of/) [Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rodriguez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/005/richard-rodriguez-6515_america_the-myth-of-the-dead-indian-goes-back-to_1042028.png) > [The Indians had to be either killed, or herded into reservations, which were essentially concentration camps, and forgotten. Their history had to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rodriguez/the-indians-had-to-be-either-killed-or-herded-into-reservations-which/) [Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rodriguez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c4/richard-rodriguez-6515_believe_the-indians-had-to-be-either-killed-or-h_1912159.png) > [Of course, since we don't see the Indian as a living figure - having turned the Indian into a kind of mascot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rodriguez/of-course-since-we-don-t-see-the-indian-as-a-living-figure-having/) [Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rodriguez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f38/richard-rodriguez-6515_courses_of-course-since-we-don-t-see-the-indian_2097147.png) > [What really terrifies Americans is the prospect that the Indian is very much alive, that the Indian is having nine babies in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rodriguez/what-really-terrifies-americans-is-the-prospect-that-the-indian-is/) [Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rodriguez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/881/richard-rodriguez-6515_alive_what-really-terrifies-americans-is-the-p_2680074.png) ## Other authors on Indians - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sherman-alexie-84912.jpg) Sherman Alexie 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/indians/sherman-alexie/) - [Robert A. 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It was a busy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rodriguez/in-the-sacramento-of-the-1950s-it-was-as-though-white-simply-hadn-t/) [Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rodriguez/) > [Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rodriguez/books-should-confuse-literature-abhors-the-typical-literature-flows/) [Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rodriguez/) > [Mexico is sex and Canada is mind. There is much about Canada that I find admirable - the treatment of immigrants, for example, particularly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rodriguez/mexico-is-sex-and-canada-is-mind-there-is-much-about-canada-that-i/) [Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rodriguez/) > [My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rodriguez/my-decision-was-sparked-by-affirmative-action-there-was-a-point-in-my/) [Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rodriguez/) > [Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there was nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rodriguez/who-knows-what-yale-thought-it-was-getting-when-it-hired-richard/) [Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rodriguez/) > [I have a good black friend who is a doctor, but he didn't become a doctor because he saw other black men who were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rodriguez/i-have-a-good-black-friend-who-is-a-doctor-but-he-didn-t-become-a/) [Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rodriguez/) > [In some ways I consider myself more Chinese, because I live in San Francisco, which is becoming a predominantly Asian city. I avoid falling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rodriguez/in-some-ways-i-consider-myself-more-chinese-because-i-live-in-san/) [Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rodriguez/) > [I think the universities have co-opted the intellectual, by and large. But there is an emerging intellectual set coming out of Washington think tanks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rodriguez/i-think-the-universities-have-co-opted-the-intellectual-by-and-large/) [Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rodriguez/) > [You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five blocks. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rodriguez/you-don-t-know-mexico-man-you-have-trivialized-mexico-you-are-a-fool/) [Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rodriguez/) > [After the second chapter of Days of Obligation, which is about the death of a friend of mine from AIDS, was published in Harper's,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rodriguez/after-the-second-chapter-of-days-of-obligation-which-is-about-the/) [Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rodriguez/) > [What has happened in the last generation is that Tijuana has become a new Third World capital - much to the chagrin of Mexico…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rodriguez/what-has-happened-in-the-last-generation-is-that-tijuana-has-become-a/) [Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rodriguez/) > [We're looking at complexity. We're looking at blond kids in Beverley Hills who can speak Spanish because they have been raised by Guatemalan nannies.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rodriguez/we-re-looking-at-complexity-we-re-looking-at-blond-kids-in-beverley/) [Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rodriguez/) > [Intimacy is not trapped within words. It passes through words. It passes. The truth is that intimates leave the room. Doors close. Faces move…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rodriguez/intimacy-is-not-trapped-within-words-it-passes-through-words-it/) [Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rodriguez/) > [For me, diversity is not a value. Diversity is what you find in Northern Ireland. Diversity is Beirut. Diversity is brother killing brother. Where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rodriguez/for-me-diversity-is-not-a-value-diversity-is-what-you-find-in/) [Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rodriguez/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/indians/richard-rodriguez/#itemlist", "name": "4 Indians Quotes By Richard Rodriguez", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The myth of the dead Indian goes back to the Protestant settlement of the U.S. The Pilgrims wanted to start a new life in America. They wanted to believe that in some sense they had come to a new Eden and that they could leave history behind in Europe. So they convinced themselves that this land had no history, that this was \"virgin\" land. 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