Latina Quotes - Page 3

• There are so many really good role models out there, we just have to make sure that we don't glorify just one type. We have the first Latina Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, who is ready to be a force in kids' lives. I could name hundreds of people like her.

  Michelle Obama

  People, Role Models, Justice

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Back home I had always been comfortable around people. I was the troublemaker, always being funny - that's just who I am. I'm Latina; I've always had that extra little flavor. But when I got to New York, it became about being comfortable with myself in a place where I didn't know many people, and that was the big challenge. Ultimately my personality helped me build relationships with the people I was working with, and I was able to stand out.

  Joan Smalls

  Home, People, Personality

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's important for women to understand that it's bad enough that we don't make dollar-for-dollar what men do, but when you distill that down to women of color, our Latinas and our African American women, it's even less than that 78 cents.

  Nina Turner

  Men, Color, African American

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Sonia Sotomayor is uniquely and exquisitely sensitive to race issues because she is a Latina.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Race, Issues, Sensitive

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• I get a lot of credit for having succeeded as a Latina in this world, and I am not that. I appreciate it, but I'm Italian. And that does happen a lot.

  Cameron Esposito

  Italian, Appreciate, Doe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Producers] promised me they wouldn't do that sort of "defining nature of my character is that Laurel is Latina [in How to Get Away with Murder] ." It has nothing to do with that. She just happens to be a Latina.

  Karla Souza

  Character, Defining, Murder

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Until they hired a Latina to write for Laurel [in How to Get Away with Murder], I was scared that she was going to fall into stereotypes.

  Karla Souza

  Fall, Writing, Scared

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• We have Latinas in California making 55 cents on the dollar. Black women making 63 cents on the dollar. White women making 78 cents on the dollar. It doesn't change very much year by year, it might go up or down a penny, but oftentimes, the years that it goes up are the same years that men are making a little bit more. It's pretty much always in proportion.

  Patricia Arquette

  Men, Years, California

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm an actress, and I am Latina.

  Rita Moreno

  Actresses

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• When I was asked to change Laurel into a Latina for How to Get Away with Murder, I was terrified, because I thought, no one's going to know how to do this because the American take on my culture is never accurate.

  Karla Souza

  Culture, Murder, Laurels

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Think of how hard it would be to create a gender-based movement across racial lines as long as one group believes that it has to be strong while seeing the other group as passive and weak. We could also go into the stereotypes of the saucy, mercurial Latina and the docile, easily-dominated Asian woman.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Strong, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• One of the worst things [Donald Trump] said was about a woman in a beauty contest. He loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them. And he called this woman "Miss Piggy." Then he called her "Miss Housekeeping," because she was Latina. Donald, she has a name.

  Hillary Clinton

  Love Is, Names, Missing

  Source: time.com

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• I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

  Gabriela Isler

  Girl, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Miss Universe Gabriela Isler Opens Up About The Anti-Chavez Twitter Controversy" by Lucia I. Suarez Sang, www.foxnews.com. November 21, 2013.

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• You get typecast. You have to find a niche in this business. So, the roles that I got cast in were the Latina or the Italian spitfires. The woman with a passion and the woman who didn't want to listen to anyone, did everything her own way, very self-willed.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Passion, Italian, Self

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I want to steer away from the stereotypes that Latina women are categorized in. I feel like there are so many more opportunities for us. I like going out for those roles that says open ethnicity.

  Emily Rios

  Opportunity, Ethnicity, Want

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• I had dreams, but always told myself, 'Nah, that would never happen.' For a poor Latina, (acting) wasn't a reality.

  Diane Guerrero

  Dream, Reality, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Beautiful, Latin, Thinking

  "Love And Rockets' Hernandez brothers on 30 years in comics". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.

  Grace Napolitano

  Men, White, Years

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• Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

  Monica Raymund

  Growing Up, School, Hair

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• When I first came out to L.A., Hollywoods idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.

  Lauren Velez

  Ideas, Mexican, Hollywood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been blessed because every single role I've done has been an educated person. I've never done the stereotypical Latina, even though I have an accent - I've always been able to play educated people. That's a good thing!

  Roselyn Sanchez

  Blessed, Play, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think I have rebelled against Latina culture. I have rebelled against those who try to make me warm tortillas for my brothers when they can warm them for themselves, I have rebelled against a patriarchal religion. I rebel against small mindedness in all ways and in every situation but those things are not an intrinsic part of Latina culture and I will fight tooth and nail against anyone who tries to make me feel like I'm less Xicana for not embracing the small-mindedness.

  Alice Bag

  Brother, Fighting, Thinking

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• We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. And as the President likes to say, 'Every single one of them wasn't just the best Latino for the job, but the best person for the job.'

  Charlie Gonzalez

  Jobs, Justice, President

  "Charles Gonzalez DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the civil rights movement and immigration. These stories, rendered through the words and eyes of a young Latina girl who came from Argentina to Marion, Alabama, are made vivid and immediate through Weaver's highly accessible drawings and dialogue. This is a book-about maturation, family, education, and social change-every schoolchild, parent, and citizen should experience.

  Sena Jeter Naslund

  Girl, Book, Eye

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• My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. "How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions?" I asked her. "That's why we take siestas," she replied.

  Molly Ivins

  Cutting, Awful, Emotion

  "Who Needs Breasts, Anyway?". content.time.com. February 18, 2002.

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