Friction Between Asians and Latinos Grows With Influx

“No matter whose side history is on, Jews have always been expendable. And so long as we are expen­dable, to talk of ‘Jewish power’ is ob­scene.”

"Anyone who has followed the disintegration of the civil rights alliance in recent years knows that open conflict was inevitable. Blacks and Jews in this country have been on a collision course for more than a decade"

“You don’t have to try at all to be a racist. It’s a little coiled clot of venom lurking there in all of us, white and black, goy and Jew, ready to strike out when we feel embattled, belittled, brutalized.”

"Maybe if we all get drunk enough we'll all have blackouts so trackless and remarkably sustained that we'll never remember all the reprehensible things we said and did to each other, hence no guilt"

"I feel battered by culture shock — ­an experience that has mainly served to teach me how little I know, and how much I have falsely assumed"

“What made 147th Street so bad was the kids. They had all grown up right in the neighborhood; now they were killing it, and each other.”

"Jeddy Gates was that increasingly rare phenomenon in American life — a legend who has not become a celebrity"

“They were in Harlem because they were the tough­est guys the department could find, and it ap­peared that if anyone could take care of themselves, and me as well, it would be the people in Sixth Homicide.”

“When I actually made myself look at Harlem, what I saw was so bizarre that, even with the help of those homicide detectives, I found it bewildering — another country, another planet.”