The notion that you go to a public institution in order to learn private information about yourself is absurd. We used to understand that when studen….

There was a poll released yesterday that said most people would rather give up sex than give up their cell phones..

Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality..

But very early in life I became part of the majority culture and now don't think of myself as a minority. Yet the university said I was one. Anybody ….

What has happened in the last generation is that Tijuana has become a new Third World capital - much to the chagrin of Mexico City, which is more and….

So many of my friends tell me they’re not religious. I’m like, Of course you’re religious. You watch Oprah Winfrey, don’t you?.

Language is a social event..

We're looking at complexity. We're looking at blond kids in Beverley Hills who can speak Spanish because they have been raised by Guatemalan nannies.….

My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me - when my family….

In some ways I consider myself more Chinese, because I live in San Francisco, which is becoming a predominantly Asian city. I avoid falling into the ….

Bilingual-education advocates say it's important to teach a child in his or her family's language. I say you can't use family language in the classro….

I find L.A. very interesting, partly because I think something new is forming there, but not in a moment of good fellowship as you might think from a….

What really terrifies Americans is the prospect that the Indian is very much alive, that the Indian is having nine babies in Guatemala, and that thos….

A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed ….

Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by the lust of San Diego. Everything that….

Intimacy is not trapped within words. It passes through words. It passes. The truth is that intimates leave the room. Doors close. Faces move away fr….

The university has become so stultified since the sixties. There is so much you can't do at the university. You can't say this, you can't do that, yo….

I don't deny people their fantasy life, but I do think that we desperately need to start realizing just how complicated our reality is in America. Si….

'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught i….

Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go to a university to learn about the person y….

Henry Ford didn't just create a cheap way of getting away from your in-laws; he basically understood that there was something in us as a culture that….