Mexican Quotes - Page 11

• But lots of emerging racial tensions in California have nothing to do with whites: Filipinos and Samoans are fighting it out in San Francisco high schools. Merced is becoming majority Mexican and Cambodian. They may be fighting in gangs right now, but I bet they are also learning each other's language.

  Richard Rodriguez

  School, Fighting, California

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There's something about my Mexican-American heritage... I'm proud of it.

  Christian Camargo

  Heritage, Proud, Mexican American

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much.

  Yelawolf

  Real, Drumming, Speak

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• My plan is to bring back like the Bracero Program from 1944 that ran for 20 years where the Mexican government vets these people. I mean, they pay for it, and they get green cards, and they're actually legitimate. And then seal the border.

  Kinky Friedman

  Mean, Government, Years

  "Kinky Friedman Talks with Bill O'Reilly About Why He Wants to be Governor of Texas". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 15, 2005.

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• I collect wrestling figures from overseas, like Japanese wrestling figures and Mexican wrestling figures.

  Joseph Bruce

  Wrestling, Figures

  "Insane Clown Posse's Violent J on working at McDonald's and Janet Jackson's curves". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 18, 2015.

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• Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests.

  Cheech Marin

  Guy, Yeah, Priests

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• Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Aztec

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.50

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• I won't live in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. I'm sorry I just won't do it.

  Thom Yorke

  Sorry, Neighborhood, I'm Sorry

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• On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.

  Tyler Posey

  Mom, Dad, White

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.

  Jack White

  School, White, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedding. You must show up. Otherwise, you'll be in big trouble.

  Eva Longoria

  Baby, Missing, Baptism

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• Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo. But it's a real beauty, a Mexican cutie, how it got here I haven't a clue.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Tattoo, Real, Alcohol

  Song: Margaritaville, 1977

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• If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.

  Vicente Fox

  Together, Way, Businessman

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• At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.

  David Herbert Donald

  Military, War, Years

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• I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

  David Arquette

  Thinking, Causes, Realistic

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

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• Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other town had attacked our camp, killed all the warriors of the guard, captured all our ponies, secured our arms, destroyed our supplies, and killed many of our women and children.. when all were counted, I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain.

  Geronimo

  Mother, Children, Warrior

  Geronimo, S. M. Barrett (2016). “Geronimo's Story of His Life: As Told to S. M. Barrett”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Soul, Intelligence, Intense

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• Mexican style of boxing training is different from what my father had trained me. It was good for me because it was an added knowledge, an addition to my boxing IQ.

  Tomoki Kameda

  Father, Boxing, Style

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true, it is one with nature. This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersMichelangelo, Czanne, Seurat, and Renoir. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.

  Diego Rivera

  Art, Roots, Tree

  Diego Rivera, with Gladys March (2012). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• There's no doubt that Mexican men and women - full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work - are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.

  Vicente Fox

  Men, Doubt, United States

  "Fox Regrets Racial Remark". www.cbsnews.com. May 16, 2005.

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• The Negro. The South. These are the details. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls of other men (and in the process destroy themselves) for reasons neither really understands. It is the story of the persecuted, the defrauded, the feared, and detested. I could have been a Jew in Germany, a Mexican in a number of states, or a member of any 'inferior' group. Only the details would have differed. The story would be the same.

  John Howard Griffin

  Real, Men, Numbers

  "Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition".

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• In the Mexican repertoire there's a lot of super delicious things you can do with vegetables and beans and grains and all that sort of stuff. So I can do this thing.

  Rick Bayless

  Vegetables, Stuff, Beans

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• Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.

  Sam Houston

  Texas, Benefits, Santa

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• Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.

  Marty Robbins

  Girl, Texas, West

  Song: El Paso

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• I think that even the Mexican society is a victim of all of this, of these crimes of "cleaning" people, of discarding people.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, People, Cleaning

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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