"In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived, where Asians did not live, where Negroes did not live, my family's Mexican shades passed as various."

-- Richard Rodriguez

#Black And White Quotes #Mexican Quotes #East Quotes

“It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.”

Source : "I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language" by John Humphrys, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 24, 2007.
“I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have always been politically active and vaguely dissatisfied with the state of news, but I wasn't sure why.”
“Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.”
“We're not forcing people... you can support and be a supporter, but if you go beyond that and become a member, [and] if you're a businessman, your business will multiply... Everything you touch will multiply. I've always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC... because supporting the ANC means you're investing very well in your business.”

Source : Jacob Zuma'sremarks at the 101st Anniversary Gala Dinner of the African National Congress in Durban, January 12, 2013.
“Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.”
“Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.”
“I mean, if I believed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that a truck was coming at you, and you didnâ€™t believe that truck was bearing down on you, there is a certain point where I tackle you. And this is more important than that.”

You may also like:

Amy Tan
Film writer
Annie Dillard
Author
Bill Moyers
Former White House Press Secretary
Cherrie Moraga
Writer
Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Scholar
Joan Didion
Author
Maxine Hong Kingston
Author
Paulo Freire
Educator
Sandra Cisneros
Writer