Don't box him in …

… Why the writer Richard Rodriguez refuses to be put into a box | America Magazine. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

'“The problem is that the language—any language the young would use—already was crafted by centuries before them, by the dead of their own race or nation, villains and saints both. One must join the company of generations of tongues in order to voice oneself apart, in whatever tongue. Speaking thus becomes an act of socialization, even if it is the declaration of separation.”