My four years of high school were spent locked up inside el campo. I became a voracious reader and television-watcher, keeping to myself at such alarming extremes that I became invisible. My invisibility provided the perfect protection against harm of any sort. I walked to and from school past the gangsters as silently as a breeze, so disassociated from their tattoos and lingo that even they couldn't find a place for me in their lines of vision.


Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (2006)

Rigoberto González Quotes

My four years of high school were spent locked up inside el campo. I became a voracious reader and television-watcher, keeping to myself at such...

My four years of high school were spent locked up inside el campo. I became a voracious reader and television-watcher, keeping to myself at such...

My four years of high school were spent locked up inside el campo. I became a voracious reader and television-watcher, keeping to myself at such...

My four years of high school were spent locked up inside el campo. I became a voracious reader and television-watcher, keeping to myself at such...