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Richard Rodriguez Quotes: "But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home."

But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home.



Richard Rodriguez Quotes: "Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer."

Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer.




Richard Rodriguez Quotes: "There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers."

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.



Richard Rodriguez Quotes: "A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student."

A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student.




Richard Rodriguez Quotes: "But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers."

But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers.



Richard Rodriguez Quotes: "I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America."

I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.



Richard Rodriguez Quotes: "Language is a social event."

Language is a social event.




Richard Rodriguez Quotes: "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 is not Mexico; that is some crude Americanism you have absorbed."

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 is not Mexico; that is some crude Americanism you have absorbed.



Richard Rodriguez Quotes: "Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go to a university to learn about the person you were before you left home."

Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go to a university to learn about the person you were before you left home.



Richard Rodriguez Quotes: "Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico's great federalist and apologist, has coined a wonderful term, la raza cósmica, "the cosmic race," a new people having not one race but many in their blood."

Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico's great federalist and apologist, has coined a wonderful term, la raza cósmica, "the cosmic race," a new people having not one race but many in their blood.



Richard Rodriguez Quotes: "Of course, since we don't see the Indian as a living figure - having turned the Indian into a kind of mascot for the ecology movement, a symbol of prehistory - we can't see the Indian among us."

Of course, since we don't see the Indian as a living figure - having turned the Indian into a kind of mascot for the ecology movement, a symbol of prehistory - we can't see the Indian among us.



Richard Rodriguez Quotes: "Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment."

Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.




Richard Rodriguez Quotes: "My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me - when my family was working-class, and we were struggling."

My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me - when my family was working-class, and we were struggling.



Richard Rodriguez Quotes: "I don't deny people their fantasy life, but I do think that we desperately need to start realizing just how complicated our reality is in America. Sitcoms just don't show us that."

I don't deny people their fantasy life, but I do think that we desperately need to start realizing just how complicated our reality is in America. Sitcoms just don't show us that.



Richard Rodriguez Quotes: "Learning can cause social fracture. Your people start expressing themselves."

Learning can cause social fracture. Your people start expressing themselves.



Richard Rodriguez Quotes: "When a society doesn't know what to do with its young, it's in real trouble. When the young don't know what to do with society - at the very least, revolutions start there."

When a society doesn't know what to do with its young, it's in real trouble. When the young don't know what to do with society - at the very least, revolutions start there.



Richard Rodriguez Quotes: "Henry Ford didn't just create a cheap way of getting away from your in-laws; he basically understood that there was something in us as a culture that wanted to be on the move, that wanted to get out."

Henry Ford didn't just create a cheap way of getting away from your in-laws; he basically understood that there was something in us as a culture that wanted to be on the move, that wanted to get out.