Latino Quotes - Page 12

• I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'

  Cristela Alonzo

  Community, Trying, Different

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• I think most people assume if you're a Latino in Texas, you're Mexican. It's not really a problem, and I love so much about Mexican culture and the Mexican people.

  Stephanie Beatriz

  Thinking, Texas, People

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• People take pride in being Irish-American and Italian-American. They have a particular culture that infuses the whole culture and makes it richer and more interesting. I think if we can expand that attitude to embrace African-Americans and Latino-Americans and Asian-Americans, then we will be in a position where all our kids can feel comfortable with the worlds they are coming out of, knowing they are part of something larger.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Kids, Pride

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Ultimately, the main reason that you want more women in the sciences is the same reason you want more gay men in the sciences. It's the same reason you want more Latinos or African Americans; it's because if you come at a problem from a different perspective, you will be offering a creative vision that wasn't there before.

  Cara Santa Maria

  Gay, Men, Offering

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There's so many ways to be a voice and that's what I'm figuring out. Being an artist, being an actor, it's about telling stories that could heal, that could open up discussion that could make the community better. There are many (Latino) stories that need to be told and haven't been told right. If I could help be that voice then that's what I'm going to do, because this is a reality for me.

  Richard Cabral

  Artist, Reality, Voice

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• The gang may be a safer place than home, but it's not without its problems. In some instances, especially in the Latino community, the boys have very traditional views of femininity even though they are gang members. The girls can be [seen] as sexually available, but not the good girl that you want to take home to your family, even by young men in the gangs.

  Meda Chesney-Lind

  Girl, Home, Boys

  "Girls and Gangs". Interview with Lisa Wong Macabasco, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.

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• It's funny, everywhere I go some people ask me whether it's going to be a Latino breakthrough, some people ask me whether it's going to be a female breakthrough, and then I'm reminded that five years ago we didn't even know Barack Obama's name.

  Gwen Ifill

  Years, Names, People

  "Gwen Ifill’s Truth". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 29, 2009.

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• When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping point is generally 15 percent; at 15 percent you begin to see white flight.

  Richard Benjamin

  Moving, White, Class

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey to the Heart of America book. And that is because many of the Whitopians would not have been comfortable talking about their views on immigration, talking about their views on taxes. And they wouldn't have spilled to me the new script on race and poverty as they did.

  Richard Benjamin

  Book, Heart, Journey

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• I've been in a couple with different races like Latino, white, Middle Eastern.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Couple, Race, White

  "Sanaa Lathan tries 'Something New'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. August 4, 2010.

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• People who have come to the USA legally, who stood in line, who played by the rules, in the Latino and the Hispanic community, just like every other American, long to have a president that says, "We are a nation of laws, and that we're going to uphold and enforce those laws."

  Mike Pence

  Law, Usa, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• So how do Latinos feel if there's a big investment just in the African American community, and they're looking around and saying, "We're poor as well. What kind of help are we getting?" Or Asian Americans who say, "Look, I'm a first-generation immigrant, and clearly I didn't have anything to do with what was taking place."

  Barack Obama

  Community, African American, Asian

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• In the words of Alice Walker, the biggest way people give up power is by not knowing we have it to start with. We have it: just to look at the power of fighting student debt or 25 million Latinos who learned that the Republicans are the party that hate and fear but Democrats are the party of people deportation and detention.

  Jill Stein

  Giving Up, Hate, Party

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I think there are a lot of opportunities in the Americas that matter deeply to 45 million Latinos in this country, and I would hope to be able to work to maybe elevate the profile of the Americas in our discussion about American global leadership.

  Tim Kaine

  Country, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Islands, Family And Friends, No Friends

  Source: eldiariony.com

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• This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  African American, Battle, Stereotype

  Source: eldiariony.com

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• I am eternally grateful to all of the Latino groups outside of the Puerto Rican community, but including the Puerto-Rican community, who came to support me during the process [of nomination].

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Grateful, Support, Community

  "Sotomayor on Puerto Rico, Not Speaking Spanish… and Poker". voicesofny.org. January 15, 2013.

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• There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending.

  Jesse Jackson

  Toxic, Patterns, Discrimination

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• In America, sometimes people think all Latinos can be deported, and we can't. You know, I can't be deported.

  Gloria Calderon Kellett

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• I am proud to be Latino.

  Justina Machado

  Proud

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• In my mind, there's no question that Donald Trump has energized the Latino community more than any other presidential candidate. Unfortunately for him, he's done that in a negative way.

  Julian Castro

  Community, Presidential, Mind

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's going to be difficult for [Donald] Trump to overcome the deep first impression that he gave to the Latino community with his comments right out of the gate about Mexican immigrants, with his comments about Judge Curiel.

  Julian Castro

  Judging, Mexican, Community

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Black people are just constantly immature in their thinking, undisciplined, and we suffer as a people. This is not about race in the sense that black people got to get something better than whites or Latinos or Asians. This is just basically that we keep complaining about what we don't have and what we can't do, and then, when we get in positions to do stuff, we fight amongst ourselves like savages.

  KRS-One

  Fighting, Thinking, Race

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• When I say hip-hoppers, I mean black, white, Asian, Latino, Chicano, everybody. Everybody. Hip-hop has united all races. Hip-hop has formed a platform for all people, religions, and occupations to meet on something. We all have a platform to meet on now, due to hip-hop. That, to me, is beyond music. That is just a brilliant, brilliant thing.

  KRS-One

  Mean, White, Race

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• You always wonder whether the attacks on my capabilities came from an honest evaluation of my accomplishments or from stereotypical presumptions that we, people of color, just can't do it, for some reason. This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Color, Accomplishment, People

  Source: www.eldiariony.com

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