“The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.” Quote by Jimenez Lai
“I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about Renaissance sonnets? The embarrassing truth of the matter was that I was being chosen because Yale University had some peculiar idea about what my skin color or ethnicity signified.” IdeasMatterNextWhiteClassTeachDoorsMiddleColorSkinsUniversityExpectedChosenMiddle ClassNeighborhoodPeculiarEmbarrassingSonnetRenaissanceEthnicityYaleSkin ColorYale University Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there was nothing wrong with that. I thought there was something very wrong. I still do. I think race-based affirmative action is crude and absolutely mistaken.” PeopleThinkingKnowsStillsActionJobsRaceMistakenCrudeAffirmative ActionYaleAffirmative Author:Richard Rodriguez
“I don't think writers should be convenient examples. I don't think we should make people feel settled. I don't try to be a gadfly, but I do think that real ideas are troublesome. There should be something about my work that leaves the reader unsettled. I intend that.” PeopleThinkingFeelsShouldTryingIdeasRealExampleReaderConvenientTroublesomeGadflies Author:Richard Rodriguez
“The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that writers should provide an example of how to live. Virginia Woolf ended her life by putting a rock in her sweater one day and walking into a lake. She is not a model of how I want to live my life. On the other hand, the bravery of her syntax, of her sentences, written during her deepest depression, is a kind of example for me. But I do not want to become Virginia Woolf. That is not why I read her.” WantShouldKindHandsCommunityWrittenRocksExampleWalkingOne DayModelsBraveryNotionSentencesLakesLiving My LifeVirginiaSampleSweatersSyntaxSociologicalWoolf Author:Richard Rodriguez
“In some cases there are ways of thinking about what an architectural program produces - interior and exterior - that is not necessarily directed by an economic requirement, but is a diagram based on human actions, selfish or otherwise.” ThinkingWayHumansActionCasesEconomicProduceProgramSelfishRequirementsInteriorsWay Of ThinkingExteriorHuman ActionsDiagrams Author:Jimenez Lai
“The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession.” KindRealSleepBreakObsessionContinuingTaking A Break Author:Jimenez Lai
“Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.” ArtCertainLiteratureAcceptanceRelyVocabulary Author:Jimenez Lai
“Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things.” WellsLanguageDrawingMeaningfulConventionsArrangementsMisusedMeaningful Things Author:Jimenez Lai
“The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either.” TermRolesCommunicationArchitecture Author:Jimenez Lai
“Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts.” BodyArtistEnjoyMessages Author:Jimenez Lai