California Quote by Richard Rodriguez

“Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.”

— Richard Rodriguez

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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