“When the thousands of people sang the national anthem, with their right hands over their chest, I cried. It was as if we were singing about an America that we wanted but didn't have, especially the part about the land… — Michael Patrick MacDonald Copy Share Image
“But the general feeling in the neighborhood was that school was for suckers. The dropouts were the ones who said that the most, and… — Michael Patrick MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Look, he's just in another form! Do you understand?" Ma explained. I didn't know where she was going with it. The old man Wren… — Michael Patrick MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I remember hating having to cross over the Broadway Bridge again, having to leave the peninsula neighborhood and go back to my apartment in… — Michael Patrick MacDonald Copy Share Image
“It’s funny, I thought, how the people who seem the meanest, the people we want nothing to do with, might be in the most… — Michael Patrick MacDonald Copy Share Image
“When I started doing community organizing in Boston's neighborhoods, working on all the issues that had affected my family - violence, poverty, guns -… — Michael Patrick MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I stared at them for a good long time, wondering if they didn’t know how to use their wings, of if they just didn’t… — Michael Patrick MacDonald Copy Share Image
“When the thousands of people sang the national anthem, with their right hands over their chest, I cried. It was as if we were… — Michael Patrick MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Someone told me you were worshipping the devil with the punk rocks!" he said, opening the jug. Ma walked into the apartment, and Grandpa… — Michael Patrick MacDonald Copy Share Image
