I have a good black friend who is a doctor, but he didn't become a doctor because he saw other black men… — 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
“Of all the institutions in their lives, only the Catholic Church has seemed aware of the fact that my mother and father… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“If, because of my schooling, I had grown culturally separated from my parents, my education finally had given me ways of speaking… — 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
“This is what matters to me: the story of the scholarship boy who returns home one summer from college to discover bewildering… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a… — 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
