"I'm Mexican-American, but for a long time I was pushed out of any references to Mexican-American writers. It was easier to come out as a gay man than it was to come out as a Mexican-American."

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Source : "'I'm a Writer Who Hustled, Not a Hustler Who Wrote': An Interview With John Rechy". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. December 9, 2013.

John Rechy

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“It is difficult to predict the outcome of any Presidency, but with Donald Trump the worst-case scenarios seem particularly plausible, because he is so uninterested in the safeguards that might prevent them.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“Not everybody is qualified to go to Stanford, but everybody should have access to the best qualify for which they are eligible.”
“Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.”
“Make it a rule and pray to God to help you keep it . . . never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day."”

Source : Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com
“The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. Its a nice problem to have.”
“Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A world that hasn't changed for hundreds of thousands of years wakes up, and carries on as if the daylight and the humans and the changes to the landscape have all been an illusion.”
“Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.”
“I know people have tattooed my 'Sons of Anarchy' photos, they've painted them, on their bikes. I've seen a few of those, sent to me through friends, where they've actually taken my 8x10 Tig photo and put it right on their bike.”

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