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The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long.…

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Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.
The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the…
But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers.
The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection…
I think brown marks a reunion of peoples, an end to ancient wanderings. Rival cultures and creeds conspire with Spring to create…
There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.
A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me…
I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.
In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where…
In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was…
But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who…
Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply…

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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out… — Louisa May Alcott
The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the… — Richard Rodriguez
I love women, and I just think that they're great. I mean, yes, they can be a little nutty sometimes, but they're… — Tyler Blackburn
Hey can mean anything. It can mean yes, it can mean maybe, it could mean no, it could mean next week. Hey,… — Si Robertson
Make your "yes" mean yes, and your "no" mean no. — John Wooden
I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera,… — Lily Tomlin
Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there… — Douglas Adams
Nice dress Zoey. It looks just like mine. Oh, wait! It used to be mine. Aphrodite laughed a throaty, I'm-so-grown-and-you're-just-a-kid laugh. I… — P. C. Cast
You don’t annoy me.” Carefully he rebuttoned the placket of her shirt. “I thought you did, at first. But now I realize… — Lisa Kleypas
When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'? — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- With respect, Professor McGonagall, I'm not quite sure you understand what I'm trying to do here. - With respect, Mr. Potter,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Blimey,” said the other twin. “Are you — ?” “He is,” said the first twin. “Aren’t you?” he added to Harry. “What?”… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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