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So little is said about the scholarship boy in pages and pages of educational literature. Nothing is said of the silence that comes to separate the boy from his parents.

— Richard Rodriguez Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982)

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The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light.

As you see yourself, I once saw myself; as you see me now, you will be seen.

My brother is now seventy. His hands are burled with arthritis. Some days he walks with difficulty.

Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013)

Q: Why do I stay in the Catholic Church?

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The sight of them together does not lead you to wonder about a history in which you are not the narrator?

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