A Quote by Ron Stallworth

I'm just a kid from El Paso, Texas. — © Ron Stallworth
I'm just a kid from El Paso, Texas.
I moved from New York to El Paso in 2015, just before my senior year. I was super nervous. My mom, she's in the Army, and she got stationed at Fort Bliss. We packed everything up and drove all the way to El Paso.
[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.
We’re on the moon,” Sadie murmured. “El Paso, Texas,” Bast corrected.
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.
While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
Growing up, everyone around me in El Paso, Texas, was all about watching 'The Wall' and, you know, 'Money' and 'Dark Side of the Moon,' which are fantastic records, of course.
If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus
I was born in '72, and my dad was county judge of El Paso from '82 to '86. He was just as independent as he could be, and had an amazing joy in life and in being with people, which, from my perspective as a kid, was that he was always going to do the right thing, and damn the consequences - political or otherwise.
And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
You know, I know a lot of lifeguards. Both my parents were lifeguards at a lake in El Paso, Texas. I was a lifeguard in a swimming pool in Portland, Ore. And I have known and met and befriended a number of oceangoing lifeguards in California where I live.
In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.
I spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.
We in El Paso and Juarez are literally one community. There's no separation; there's no DMZ; there's no buffer.
I've got to thank the city of El Paso for standing behind me.
I didn't feel like I had a home until I moved to El Paso.
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