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Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.
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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…
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But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers.
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The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection…
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I think brown marks a reunion of peoples, an end to ancient wanderings. Rival cultures and creeds conspire with Spring to create…
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There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.
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A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me…
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I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.
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In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where…
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In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was…
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But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who…
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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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I don't even like money. It just quiets my nerves.
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In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of…
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Lake quiets, tired of my lies.
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Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
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There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . .…
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Intimacy is not trapped within words. It passes through words. It passes. The truth is that intimates leave the room. Doors close.…
— Richard Rodriguez
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Nature is another important aspect of nourishing the soul. After a hike in the mountains where we live, for instance, I feel…
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