Quotes from Richard Rodriguez

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.

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.

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