these old time immigrants are not standing up enough for the newer immigrants—the Latino people who have been coming across the Mexican border and ot… - Grace Paley

I think that’s what literature is about; it’s the struggle for truth. It’s the struggle for what you don’t understand

But I do like this language -- wheat and chaff -- with its widening pool of foreign genes, and since I never have had any occasion to say “comestible,” it was pleasurable to think it.

Peter sighed. He turned the palms of his hands up as though to guess at rain. Anna knew him, theme and choreography. The sunshiny spring afternoon seeped through his fingers. He looked up at the witnessing heavens to keep what he could. He dropped his arms and let the rest go.