Quotes by Richard Rodriguez

The American Dream is an impossible affirmation of possibility. And maybe native-born Americans don't have it anymore. Maybe it has run through their fingers.

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

Education is that human process of feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had.

Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by the lust of San Diego. Everything that was illegal in San Diego was permitted in Tijuana.

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 white time. Brown was like the skinny or fat kids left over after the team captains chose sides. You take the rest - my cue to wander away to the sidelines, to wander away.

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?"

Mexico is a country of family values.