Always Running Quotes

“cry, child, for those without tears have a grief which never ends.”
― Luis J. Rodriguez, Always Running

“The more you know, the more you owe.”
― Luis J. Rodríguez, Always Running

“You 'will never belive it.”
― Luis J. Rodriguez, Always Running

“there are choices you have to make not just once, but everytime they come up.”
― Luis J. Rodriguez, Always Running

“i'm sorry young man but the classes you chose are filled up.”
― Luis J. Rodriguez, Always Running

“they say of the poet and the madmn we all have a little”
― Luis J. Rodriguez, Always Running

“Vive La Vida LOCA (Live the crazy life)”
― Luis J. Rodriguez, Always Running

“Yeah,we rate all right”
― Luis J. Rodriguez, Always Running

“It doesn't work that way”
― Luis J. Rodriguez, Always Running

“A la brava! understand?”
― Luis J. Rodriguez, Always Running

“Pegale,Pegale!”
― Luis J. Rodriguez, Always Running

“My life is a poem to their memory.”
― Luis J Rodriguez, Always Running

“When you win, we win; but when you go down, you go down alone.”
― Luis J. Rodríguez, Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

“There is too much censorship of reality in the classroom. Whatever involves social discomfort, emotional depth, or hard thinking is cut out. Language, behavior, ideas, forms of expression, and authentic imaginations—as well as books—have been censored. Everything is directed toward ‘normalcy,’ the folding into the fast-paced, material- and status-oriented capitalist value system. As a result, much of the expanse and variety of the human condition is belittled or invalidated. Our humanity is sacrificed, little by little.”
― Luis J. Rodríguez, Always Running

“My task is to make you hear, to make you feel, and, above all, to make you see. That is all, and it is everything.”
—Joseph Conrad”
― Luis J. Rodríguez, Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.