Esai Morales Quotes
If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.
Morales, Esai. Interview by Melissa Parker. Smashing Interviews Magazine, 15 Aug. 2011.
Alexie, an American Indian, studied wrote about the phenomenon whereby the Indians who were brutalized and attacked by whites with modern weapons and other technological advantages, in the process of defending themselves and their way of life became oppressors to whites in many situations where they could dominate a local scene. Likewise, the Israelis, who were totally oppressed in the Middle East for years and dominated by the more numerous Arabs with over a dozen established national armies attacking the Jewish civilian population when Israel first became a state. However the Jews survived and each time the Arabs attacked and further oppressed the Israelis, the Jews became stronger until at some point the became oppressors of many of the Arabs. The oppressors became the oppressed and vica versa.
Esai Manuel Morales Jr. is an American actor who has had notable roles in 1987's La Bamba, the PBS drama American Family, and the Showtime series Resurrection Blvd. Morales also appeared as Lt. Tony Rodriguez on NYPD Blue, Joseph Adama in the science fiction television series Caprica, and Camino del Rio in the Netflix original series Ozark.
