Latino Quotes - page 3

Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in Hollywood, specifically, is not depicting people of color; we're not even talking about Asian Americans or Latino Americans; we're not even getting into that question. (Isaiah Washington)
Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program. View quote
Joe Baca
Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success. View quote
Joe Baca
As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of America depends in part on the success of the Latino community, and this opportunity is just one more signifier of that. View quote
Julian Castro
The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting. View quote
Jai Rodriguez
The Latino community, they're some of the most loyal fans on the planet. View quote
Mark Sanchez
Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre. View quote
Mara Brock Akil
Perhaps we should worry less about judging people for being Mormon or Baptist or Muslim or gay or straight or black or white or Latino or by their religious or political brands and worry more about electing thoughtful, serious and ethical politicians on both sides of the political isle who are willing to work together for progress. View quote
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
Mainly, I have actually been getting involved with an organization called MALDEF. It's a Latino organization. And I would like to get involved with charities that have to do with children or homelessness or education, or all of them together. View quote
Edy Ganem
A lot of our so-called Latino leaders are gutless. I talk to these cry-baby Latino leaders, and they say they can't win elections until Latinos are a majority. View quote
Juan Vargas
I broke into acting doing Latino roles. I played a Latino casanova in 'The Winner' and a Latino character on 'Hannah Montana.' (Michael Steger)
It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language. View quote
Romeo Santos
As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way. View quote
Rosie Perez
When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world. View quote
Raul Ruiz
I get offered a lot of black roles, because apparently I don't look Latino enough. View quote
Tristan Wilds
I love L.A. - don't get me wrong. But I miss everything about New York. I don't eat cheese, but I miss the smell of pizza in the city. I'm a really big fan of Latino food. I want to go back home and have some good arroz con pollo. View quote
Tristan Wilds
If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable? View quote
Walter Dean Myers
I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me. View quote
Salma Hayek
I believe we have to bring Broadway a little Latino flair. We have to keep it alive. View quote
Ricky Martin
Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music. View quote
Moby
Chicano" was a bad word when I was coming up. At least that's what the elders said. The word referred to a Mexican born in the U.S., so by that definition, I'm not Chicano. I was born in Tijuana, but the Mexicans didn't see me as Mexican and the Americans didn't see me as American. I'm a man without a flag. When I started working among Chicanos as an adult, some accepted me, but some didn't. On either side [of the border] I was the "other"; I've always been the other. Later on when I had a bit of success, people on both sides were much more enthusiastic about embracing me. The word "Latino" seems meaningless to me, and "Hispanic" is just wrong. These days, I just tell people my nationality is "Writer. (Luis Alberto Urrea)
Richie, when all is said and done, is a romantic lead. There's not a lot of romantic leads out there for Latino actors, and it allowed the industry to sort of see me as an everyman... View quote
Raúl Castillo
Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters. View quote
Jeb Bush
The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes. View quote
Rita Moreno
In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate. View quote
Gabriel Iglesias