"If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey to the Heart of America book. And that is because many of the Whitopians would not have been comfortable talking about their views on immigration, talking about their views on taxes. And they wouldn't have spilled to me the new script on race and poverty as they did."

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Source : "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

Richard Benjamin

#Book Quotes #Heart Quotes #Journey Quotes

“I've learned so much from my professors and have been fortunate to have had so many good ones, including Frederick and Steven Barthelme, Edward Carey, Jim Magnuson, and Elizabeth McCracken.”
“Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.”
“I am looking forward to getting to do things I have never done before.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.”
“Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.”

Source : "The Farther Reaches of Human Nature". Book by Abraham Maslow, 1971.
“I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.”

Source : "The Confessions of Mike De Luca" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2011.
“Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.”
“It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.”

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