When a society doesn't know what to do with its young, it's in real trouble. When the young don't know what to… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The Census Bureau is thinking of creating a new category because so many kids don't know how to describe themselves using the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
It is very curious that the United States and Canada both assume that diversity means only race and ethnicity. They never assume… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Mexico is sex and Canada is mind. There is much about Canada that I find admirable - the treatment of immigrants, for… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
It is not simply that these two cities are perched side by side at the edge of the Pacific; it is that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
For them [LGBT group], language has to say exactly what it means. "Why aren't you proud of being gay?" they wanted to… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The university has become so stultified since the sixties. There is so much you can't do at the university. You can't say… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Mexico is sex and Canada is mind. There is much about Canada that I find admirable - the treatment of immigrants, for example, particularly… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me -… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there was nothing… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In some ways I consider myself more Chinese, because I live in San Francisco, which is becoming a predominantly Asian city. I avoid falling… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
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,… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
What has happened in the last generation is that Tijuana has become a new Third World capital - much to the chagrin of Mexico… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
![“For them [LGBT group], language has to say exactly what it means. "Why aren't you proud of being gay?" they wanted to know. "Why are you so dark? Why are you so morbid? Why are you so sad? Don't you realize, we're all okay? Let's celebrate that fact." But that is not what writers do. We don't…” quote by Richard Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f33/richard-rodriguez-6515_aspirin_for-them-lgbt-group-language-has-to-say_2757694.jpg)
