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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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