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 ChurchIssue of Arabic in Koran

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.”

Quotes“In the late 1960s nonwhite American clamored for

access to higher education, and I became a prinical beneficiary of the academy’s 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.”