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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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