Quotes from Richard Rodriguez PartII

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Quotes from Richard Rodriguez PartII
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Quotes

• In the old Latin mass my mother could recite her
  rosary while still being at one with prayer at
  the altar.
• Issue of Latin in Catholic Church
• Issue of Arabic in Koran

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Quotes

• You know how important looks are in this
  country. With los gringos looks are all that
  they judge on
• Dark skin was for mother the most important
  symbol of a life of oppressive labor and poverty.

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• In the late 1960s nonwhite American clamored for
  access to higher education, and I became a
  prinical beneficiary of the academys response,
  its programs of affirmative action.
• I was recognized on campus an
  Hispanic-American, a Latino, a Mexican-American,
  a Chicano.
• The poor have neither the inclination nor the
  skill to imagine their lives so abstractly. They
  remain strangers to the way of life the academic
  constructs so well on paper.
• repeating the mistake of claiming benefits for
  the relative few because of the absence of the
  many.