Intimacy is not trapped within words. It passes through words. It passes. The truth is that intimates leave the room. Doors close.… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Bilingual-education advocates say it's important to teach a child in his or her family's language. I say you can't use family language… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I worry these days that Latinos in California speak neither Spanish nor English very well. They are in a kind of linguistic… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“The impersonality of the written word made it the easiest means of exchange...” — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I had all this anxiety about what it meant to be a minority. My professors - the same men who taught me… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
When the Irish nun said to me, "Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment. — 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
But lots of emerging racial tensions in California have nothing to do with whites: Filipinos and Samoans are fighting it out in… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In some countries, of course, Spanish is the language spoken in public. But for many American children whose families speak Spanish at… — 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
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