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
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
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
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
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
“The impersonality of the written word made it the easiest means of exchange...” — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
