'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
You learn in America to speak two ways. You learn in public discourse not to be very specific about your religious life.… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by 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
It is not simply that these two cities are perched side by side at the edge of the Pacific; it is that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
fter the O.J. Simpson trial there was talk about how the country was splitting in two - one part black, one part… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this… — 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
