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
In some ways I consider myself more Chinese, because I live in San Francisco, which is becoming a predominantly Asian city. I… — 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… — 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
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
I think it's an important thing for a Mexican to say, especially now with the rebellion in Chiapas. Mexico has to confront… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I don't think writers should be convenient examples. I don't think we should make people feel settled. I don't try to be… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The popular idea of a role model implies that an adult's influence on a child is primarily occupational, and that all a… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Most American Hispanics don't belong to one race, either. I keep telling kids that, when filling out forms, they should put "yes"… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
But very early in life I became part of the majority culture and now don't think of myself as a minority. Yet… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I think what education gives you is a voice. It gives you a way of talking to a judge. When a policeman… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I don't deny people their fantasy life, but I do think that we desperately need to start realizing just how complicated our… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I find L.A. very interesting, partly because I think something new is forming there, but not in a moment of good fellowship… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I think brown marks a reunion of peoples, an end to ancient wanderings. Rival cultures and creeds conspire with Spring to create… — 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
