It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.
I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.
I come from a small village in Sicily. For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.
For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.
My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is.