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

So many of my friends tell me they’re not religious. I’m like, Of course you’re religious. You watch Oprah Winfrey, don’t you?

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.

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.

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 from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student.

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

Language is a social event.

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.

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.

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.

Georgina, " He murmured, pulling me closer. "You are the world.

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

It's hypocritical to expect a job based on a curriculum built out of companies that for whatever reason rejected you.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.

Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.

What is your major malfunction?

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