Richard Rodriguez Quotes About Optimism

• Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it comes after. There are things a young man knows that are true and are not yet in the old man's power to recollect. Spring has its sappy wisdom.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Life, Spring, Believe

  Richard Rodriguez (1993). “Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father”, Penguin Group USA

• El primer libro de un afroamericano que leí fueron las memorias de Carl T. Rowan, Go South to Sorrow. Lo encontré en la estantería del fondo de mi clase de quinto curso, un libro para adultos. Recuerdo la calidad de la mañana en que lo leí. Era una mañana soleada de enero, una mañana de sábado, fría, alta, vacía. Me senté en un rectángulo de luz solar, cerca de la rejilla del calefactor del suelo del dormitorio amarillo. Y mientras leía, fui consciente de la calidez, el confort y el optimismo. Fui consciente de mi comodidad al saber que otros no estaban, no están, reconfortados. Carl Rowan, a mi edad, no se sentía reconfortado.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Morning, Book, Yellow

  "Brown : The Last Discovery of America". Book by Richard Rodriguez, 2003.

• Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to it: we need to protect, to preserve, to shelter as much as we need to develop. But I think this always has to be juxtaposed against the optimism of old, which is now represented in part by immigrants. I would like to see America achieve a kind of balance between optimism and tragedy, between possibility and skepticism.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Thinking, America, Optimism

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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