Richard Rodriguez Quote

The other night at a neighborhood restaurant the waiter, after mentioning he had read my books, said about himself, I'm white, I'm nothing. But that was what I wanted, you see, growing up in America—the freedom of being nothing, the confidence of it, the arrogance. And I achieved it.


Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)


The other night at a neighborhood restaurant the waiter, after mentioning he had read my books, said about himself, I'm white, I'm nothing. But that...

The other night at a neighborhood restaurant the waiter, after mentioning he had read my books, said about himself, I'm white, I'm nothing. But that...

The other night at a neighborhood restaurant the waiter, after mentioning he had read my books, said about himself, I'm white, I'm nothing. But that...

The other night at a neighborhood restaurant the waiter, after mentioning he had read my books, said about himself, I'm white, I'm nothing. But that...