"There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers."

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Source : Richard Rodriguez (2004). “Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez”, p.200, Bantam

Richard Rodriguez

#Stranger Quotes

“In this global war against extremists who use murder as a weapon, Iraq is now the central front.”
“Usually when you're playing with other people in not such a reverberant room, you have to be quick on your feet and think about stuff really quickly. But inside the cistern, it was almost like I was at home on my computer arranging and taking time thinking about the next step, the next note. Instead, the room was my collaborator. I could hear the note and sit there and think. I could be arranging as I was going in real time, which was fascinating.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.”
“What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.”
“I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.”
“I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.”
“We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.”
“I found it to be kind of ironic, because Iâ€™m white, therefore Iâ€™m appropriating culture, but then Eminem won it - whoâ€™s white and won it many times - and they didnâ€™t seem to say anything about that. I suspect it was just because they dislike me.”

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