Latino Quotes - page 4

I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo. (Gabriel Iglesias)
There's no such thing as a gay Marine, or a Latino Marine, or a black Marine. It's just Marines. I think that's really important to say. I'm a Marine, first and foremost. View quote
Matt Sanchez
You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things. View quote
Afrika Bambaataa
They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family. View quote
Afrika Bambaataa
I don't know whether the number of any particular Latino group has made or will make any particular difference in the issues that I am concerned with. View quote
Charles B. Rangel
The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America. View quote
Al Sharpton
A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay. View quote
Antonio Banderas
My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal. View quote
Dolores Huerta
I would hope more people would have optimism about where the Latino has come. How we have emerged, and that there will be more women, women of color especially Latinas who will get involved. View quote
Hilda Solis
Remember that the Latino, Chicano, Mexican American writers are following in the footsteps of the African American writers. This has to do with the antepasados, the people who have come before you, who allow you to take the steps you need to take. I always thank the Black writers because they gave me a sense of freedom... View quote
Denise Chávez
I can only respond as an artist, because that's what I am. I'm not going to become a politician all of a sudden. I am a politician in terms of the plays that I write, the way I embrace culture, the way I embrace characters that, in my particular case, have to do with the Latino world. And I embrace the Latino experience... (Nilo Cruz)
The advice to any young poet is to embrace your freedom and not feel constrained to write in one particular way or only about one particular topic. If they're Latino poets, I would encourage them not only to read widely, but also to read Latino poetry, to familiarize themselves with their particular tradition within American literature... View quote
Francisco Aragón
I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me. View quote
Ariel Dorfman
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. View quote
Jasper Fforde
In Latino culture the idea of the border is very contemporary. It's very much of our world, its politics are important to us. It's also a part of our emotional relationship to the rest of our family in Puerto Rico, or wherever, and our own relationship to roots-the land of our roots-and where we are now... View quote
Quiara Alegría Hudes
Anytime you do something Latino, yeah, I love the color, the spice. View quote
Esai Morales
I worked with Ted Kennedy. He was the chairman of my committee, and I loved Ted Kennedy. But on this issue, when you have one of the large Latino organizations in America saying vote no and you have the AFL-CIO saying vote no and you have leading progressive Democrats, in fact, voting no, I don't apologize for that vote. View quote
Ted Kennedy
...There's momentum about making our presence known. We're here. We're Latino playwrights and theatre professionals. Eventually there's going to be a tipping point and more of our stories will become part of the American canon. I write what I know and for now I focus on Latinos because going through school, I longed to read about my experience... View quote
Milta Ortiz
...The Latino characters that are shown on TV or in movies seem to be pretty one-dimensional. They're gang members or cleaning stuff in the background. Here's a college education family that talks about art. That's not something you see often but it's real. It's something that exists. People are like, "That's so universal!” And I'm like, "Of course it is! What did you think?” It's a human story. I believe there can be harmony. I believe we can be different and still have that. Hopefully my plays reflect this idea. View quote
Karen Zacarias
My favorite thing [about Latino television] are the commercials. Because they're always about sex. You don't know what the product is until, like, the last two seconds. It's always some model comes walking out, all sexy, like, [Mimics sexy music] [Feminine voice] "Hola." [Resumes music] [Feminine voice] "Ay que rico!"...And on the 28th second, like, [Mimics female giving a pleasured shout]..."Pepsi." [Audience laughs] And you're sitting there, going, "I gotta go get a Pepsi!" View quote
Gabriel Iglesias
Miami is more cosmopolitan. That is to say, it has a larger variety of Hispanics and they definitely have a different point of view, they're more conservative. They don't agree on a lot of issues with the rest of the Latino nation. But it's fine. My stuff has never been political, really. The older I get, the more I find comedy in minutia, the things we have in common, more family oriented stuff. (Paul Rodriguez (actor))
these old time immigrants are not standing up enough for the newer immigrants-the Latino people who have been coming across the Mexican border and others. View quote
Grace Paley
The collective memory of every Latino people includes direct or indirect (neo-)colonialism, primarily by Spain or Portugal and later by the United States. Among Latinos, Mexicans in what we now call the Southwest have experienced US colonialism the longest and most directly, with Puerto Ricans not far behind. View quote
Elizabeth Martinez
Cornel West, the African American philosopher and writer, spoke recently in San Francisco talking about the importance of linkages. For example, he said gay and lesbian rights are an issue in the African American community. They aren't separate, outside of the community. Just because the issue is not welfare, or racism, or gangs, that doesn't mean it's not a Black community issue. I think that's a very useful and important way to look at things. I know a lot of Latinos wouldn't agree that gay and lesbian rights are a Latino issue. But we need to work for this understanding and make it clear that the issue is not a problem for a bunch of people outside the Latino community who happen to be gay or lesbian. It's inside our community. Taking that kind of position is the only way that in fact makes sense. View quote
Elizabeth Martinez
Unfortunately, I haven't seen any reaction from the Latino community in regards to the thousands of people who are being detained and the children who are not with their parents...I think the Latino community has a bigger issue of - we go silent, no voice, no change...We didn't vote very much. We need to start realizing that our vote is as important as any other American in the United States. View quote
George Lopez (comedian)