“I admire them [latinos] for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.” WayLongSeemsOpportunityRolesAdmireOpeningLatinImprovingLong WayLatinoNew OpportunityNewcomers Author:Roselyn Sanchez
“I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'” MenFirstsReasonDoneCertainGirlThreeBlackSimplePagesDamnParksSnakesLatinoSimple LifeJurassic Park Author:Ice Cube
“And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.” LatinoReggaeReggae Music Author:Merle Haggard
“Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.” NeedsCareReformLatino Author:Susana Martinez
“No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.” MatterAfrican AmericanNativeItalianNative AmericanLatino Author:Nas
“I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.” TasteJazzRapPacksRatsLatinoTaste In MusicRat Pack Author:Jasper Fforde
“Black children, white children, Latino children. America is becoming more diverse, it's becoming more tolerant as a consequence there's more interactions between groups. There are going be tensions that arise.” ChildrenAmericaBlackWhiteGroupsBecomingConsequenceAriseTensionInteractionDiverseLatinoBecoming More Author:Barack Obama
“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.” PeopleThinkingSufferingFightingStuffBlackRacePositionComplainingBlack PeopleSavagesLatinoSomething BetterImmatureUndisciplined Author:KRS-One
“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.” PeopleMeanBlackWhiteUnitedRaceHip HopDuesBrilliantHipsHopsOccupationPlatformsAsianLatinoBlack White Author:KRS-One
“Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at a rally in Harlem ... Gore went on to praise Dean for taking a tough anti-war stance before the invasion of Iraq and he praised Dean supporters in hopes that will ease his concerns over lack of foreign policy experience, and his lack of support among blacks and Latinos, and his hot temperament, and perceived arrogance, and policy flip-flops, and campaign glitches. Well, there's a lot going on here.” WellsWarPresidentSupportPolicyToughConcernPraiseHotIraqVicesCampaignsFormerEaseArroganceAlsAnti WarForeign PolicyGovernorsSupporterTemperamentInvasionLatinoGoreFlipDeanVice PresidentStanceHarlemEndorsementsVermontFlip FlopsSmirkAll SmilesGlitchesLack Of Support Author:Jon Stewart
“According to today's Los Angeles Times, Gray Davis now gets negative job ratings from white people, black people, Latinos, Republicans, Independents and even Democrats. Say what you want about the guy but he's a uniter!” PeopleWantTodayJobsGuyBlackWhiteRepublicanNegativeDemocratWhat You WantLos AngelesGrayBlack PeopleLatinoRating Author:Jay Leno
“I do great with Latino voters. I employee so many Latinos, I have so many people working for me, the Latinos love Trump, and I Iove them.” PeopleLoveTrumpEmployeeVotersLatino Author:Donald Trump
“Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.” WorldStoriesHollywoodInclusionLatino Author:Salma Hayek
“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.” BelieveImportantDifferentHelpingCultureNew YorkGrewGrew UpDon't BelieveHelp MeAccentsExplosionsLatinoDifferent CulturesJennifer Author:Salma Hayek
“The next Republican that will win will campaign in the Latino community, will campaign amongst Asian-Americans, will campaign in the black churches, will campaign in college campuses.” NextWinningBlackCommunityChurchCollegeRepublicanCampaignsAsianLatinoCampusAsian AmericanCollege CampusBlack Church Author:Jeb Bush
“The irony here is that the Latino left had criticized the conservative movement for years that they were not doing outreach to the Latino community. Now that the conservative movement is doing outreach and engaging in the Latino community on a national scale, they're criticizing us for that too. You can't have it both ways.” WayYearsLeftCommunityMovementConservativeScalesIronyCriticizeEngagingLatinoOutreach Author:Daniel Garza
“There were many generations of Latino people coming to this country, coming from difficult political or social situations in their own countries, and they worked very hard to have their kids go to universities. Well, those kids came out and they are now doctors and architects, or they are on the Supreme Court. That has a reflection in Hollywood. So, we are actually very proud that our characters are Latinos, and I think it's good for diversity and cultural interaction.” PeopleThinkingWellsCountryHardCharacterKidsPoliticalSocialDifficultSituationGenerationsProudDiversityReflectionDoctorsHollywoodCourtUniversitySupremeArchitectInteractionSupreme CourtLatino Author:Antonio Banderas
“If you want a show to succeed, you're going to have to have a certain amount of people watch who are non-black and non-Latino. If you can't cross over, you don't belong on TV. That's not just me saying it. That's just the way it is.” PeopleIfsWayWantShowsCertainBlackWatchesTvsAmountSucceedCrossesOver YouLatino Author:George Lopez
“And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.” IfsThinkingWorldReasonCultureFoundLanguageSocialWonderfulGayDisabilityLatinoDeafnessSign LanguageWonderful WorldJewish CultureGay CultureLatino Culture Author:Andrew Solomon
“I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.” ImportantPlayRememberChoicesReadingChallengesRaceRolesWrittenDrugScriptsLatinoWhat's ImportantMaidsDealerDrug Dealers Author:Eva Mendes
“All my fans, especially my Latino fans and Nicaraguan fans, I promise you I will become world champion. After I become world champion Piccirillo can go back to Italy and make pizza or pasta or whatever it is he does over there.” WorldDoeFansPromiseChampionLatinoPizzaI PromisePastaWorld Champions Author:Ricardo Mayorga
“A lot of people don't realize the roots of Batman are really Latino. They don't go back to the bat god, the ones the Mayans had - they had one that was a "bat man," they had sculptures of him, literally they had bats down there - but the other, more relatively recent inspiration for Batman was Zorro. But Zorro was based on the California bandits. Joaquin Murrieta and Tiburico Vásquez.” PeopleMenInspirationRealizingRootsCaliforniaBatsSculptureLatinoBanditsZorroMayans Author:Luis Valdez
“Latinos are just like everybody else. There are conservatives. There are moderates. There are liberals.” ModeratesLatino Author:Geraldo Rivera
“The kind of love that these young men have and the respect that they have for their fathers, I don't see that as much in America as you see in the Latino community, and it's really something to behold.” MenKindAmericaYoungFatherCommunityYoung ManLatinoKinds Of Love Author:Kevin Costner
“Personal prejudice: Hispanic and Latino women with blond hair look like hookers to me, no matter how clean or cute they are. Somehow those skin tones that look so good with dark, dark hair just don't work for me with lighter shades.” LooksMatterDarkHairSkinsPrejudiceCleanCuteToneShadeLatinoLightersHispanicDark HairSkin Tone Author:John Byrne
“I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.” WantedTermStartingGet AwayIngredientsMexicanLatinoVernacularMexican Food Author:Aaron Sanchez
“Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the cliché of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female character. Women are more surprising and they have fewer prejudices.” CharacterCultureFemalePrejudiceMalesDullFewerSurprisingLatinoFemale CharactersMachismo Author:Pedro Almodovar
“For me becoming a filmmaker was about taking back my voice - crafting stories that would move away from the problematic narratives that the studio system would put out about Latinos. I think this is why people like my films. They're refreshing. They feel more real.” PeopleThinkingFeelsRealStoriesFilmMovingVoiceBecomingStudiosNarrativeFilmmakerLatinoRefreshing Author:Aurora Guerrero
“As for major obstacles keeping young Latinos from becoming filmmakers, I think our communities are still coming into their identities as storytellers. It's such an important identity to reclaim - it's how our ancestors kept our cultures alive. But a long history of silencing, invisibility, and marginalization has kept generations of Latinos from believing in themselves, from seeing themselves as agents of their own lives. I think there needs to be a focus on this aspect to help cultivate young Latinas to see themselves as cultural producers and defenders.” ThinkingNeedsBelieveLongStillsImportantHelpingYoungCultureCommunityFocusAliveSeeingGenerationsIdentityBecomingMajorsAspectObstaclesProducersAgentsFilmmakerAncestorStorytellerLatinoOur CommunityDefendersInvisibilityLatinaMarginalizationSilencing Author:Aurora Guerrero
“I believe in Mexico there's a big culture of moviegoing, both studio and indie. I think here in the US that's not the case because Latino communities don't have access to indie films. If you go into communities of color you will only find the big theater chains which only play the blockbuster genre films.” IfsThinkingBelievePlayBigsFilmCultureI BelieveCommunityCasesColorTheaterStudiosI Believe InAccessChainsGenreMexicoBelieve In MeLatinoBlockbusterIndie Films Author:Aurora Guerrero
“Puerto Rican independence movement wasn't just rooted in some sort of personal intransigence or some passionate Latino temperament. It was rooted in economic and political reality at the time. It also made sense since the founding principles of the United States are supposedly based on government by the consent of the governed, and the sense that all men are created equal.” MenMadeStatesRealityGovernmentPoliticalUnitedPrinciplesUnited StatesEconomicMovementEqualIndependencePassionateRootedConsentFoundingTemperamentLatinoConsent Of The Governed Author:Nelson Antonio Denis
“I just said let's get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too. Some Latino poets who barely speak English and Asian poets who can't believe how discriminated against they are. It was luck nad being in the right place. I wasn't saying nothing somebody else wasn't saying but they wouldn't hear it from them.” MenWantBelieveMadeSaidSpeakBlackStagePoetTvsLuckBunchMade ItThey SaidUnlikelyAsianLatinoRight PlaceSpeak EnglishSaying Nothing Author:Russell Simmons
“Learning the craft as an actor in Los Angeles is a very hard thing to do, in my opinion. We all come from a certain world and when you start learning the craft, you need material to read/study that you can relate to. We do not have too many Latino writers on the West Coast that I was able to relate to (or at least, I didn't know at the time). I came from the streets, so the most published authors had no relation to my world. As soon as I picked up Pinero & Guirgis, it was all over. It was my world, just in a different location. They cracked me open inside and out.” KnowsWorldNeedsDifferentHardAbleCertainActorsOpinionStudyStreetsMaterialsRelationWestCraftsRelateThings To DoOver ItLos AngelesLocationCoastLatinoCrackedHard ThingsWest Coast Author:Richard Cabral
“Being Latina means I have culture I guess. We party together, cry together, and cook together. Or at least my family does as much as we can. We know where we're from and we have a certain kind of rhythm and understanding. Togetherness. As I get older it becomes more apparent that there is a community in this industry that is working together to rise up and fight against the misinterpretation of Hispanic and what it means to be a Latino-American nowadays.” KnowsKindMeanDoeTogetherCertainCultureFightingUnderstandingCommunityPartyCryIndustryMy FamilyRhythmCooksWorking TogetherTogethernessLatinoHispanicLatinaMisinterpretation Author:Alicia Sixtos
“I was surprised by how forces in the community could mobilize against a community changing. There were many examples of this. In St. George, members of the Latino community proposed having a "Dixie Fiesta." The resistance to that surprised me.” ForceCommunityExampleMembersResistanceLatinoDixieFiesta Author:Richard Benjamin
“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.” IfsHeartHas BeensBookAmericaBornViewsRaceTalkingPovertyWrittenJourneyTaxesComfortableScriptsImmigrationImmigrantsLatino Author:Richard Benjamin
“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.” WellsMovingWhiteClassMiddlePercentFlightMiddle ClassNeighborhoodQualifiedLatinoTippingTipping PointUpper Middle Class Author:Richard Benjamin
“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.” PeopleKnowsYearsAsksNamesFiveFemaleYears AgoBarackAsk MeFive YearsBreakthroughLatino Author:Gwen Ifill
“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.” MenWantMayProblemHomeYoungGirlCommunityViewsBoysMembersAvailableTraditionalInstanceOur FamilyYoung ManFemininityGangLatinoSexuallyGood GirlGang Members Author:Meda Chesney-Lind
“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.” IfsWayNeedsHelpingStoriesRealityArtistActorsVoiceCommunityHavensHealDiscussionIf I CouldLatinoBeing An ArtistTelling Stories Author:Richard Cabral
“My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.” Growing UpGrowingPlayerDadBandInstrumentsMusicalMy DadBassLatinoBasementsMusical InstrumentsBass Players Author:Lindi Ortega
“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.” IfsMenWantDifferentReasonProblemVisionCreativePerspectiveGayAfrican AmericanOfferingLatinoGay MenDifferent PerspectiveCreative Vision Author:Cara Santa Maria
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldFeelsWholeKidsCultureInterestingAttitudeKnowingPositionParticularPrideComfortableEmbraceAfrican AmericanItalianComing OutAsianLatinoAsian AmericanBeing IrishItalian American Author:Barack Obama
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingProblemCultureAssumingTexasMexicanLatinoMexican Culture Author:Stephanie Beatriz
“One of the funny things about the racism of the system, when I started 30 years ago, I'm in an area called Koreatown and most of the kids were Asian. And when the kids did well, people said, "Well, of course, they did well. They're Asians." But when we had this huge influx of Latino children from Central America, they said, "Oh, you're gonna have problems now."” PeopleYearsWellsChildrenSaidProblemKidsAmericaCoursesHugeRacismAreasYears AgoThey SaidAsianFunny ThingsLatinoCentral America Author:Rafe Esquith
“Some people wanted me to be the Latino quarterback. Some people wanted me to be the USC quarterback who happens to be Latino.” PeopleHappensWantedLatinoQuarterbackUsc Author:Mark Sanchez
“I just don't understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can't figure it. I don't understand. If you're poor, if you're any kind of minority - gay, black, Latino, anything. If you're not a rich born-again-Christian, I don't get it.” IfsWantKindChristianBlackBornPoorRichFiguresRepublicanGayMinoritiesLatinoBorn Again Author:Cher
“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.” HappensDifferencesComedyAirSpecialComedianLatino Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“In all honesty, because my name is Cinco and I grew up in Phoenix, I had a lot of exposure to Latin culture and those sorts of things, and that inspired the idea of this villain, El Macho. The name came first and everything else came after that. We loved the idea of this villain. Ken actually has a lot of Latino roots in his family, too.” FirstsIdeasCultureNamesHonestyGrewGrew UpRootsInspiredLatinVillainExposureLatinoPhoenixMacho Author:Cinco Paul
“If you go to a network and say, "I wanna do prison stories about black women and Latino women and old women," you're not gonna make a sale. But, if you've got this blonde girl going to prison, you can get in there, and then you can tell all the stories. I just thought it was a terrific gateway drug into all the things I wanted to get into.” IfsStoriesWantedGirlBlackDrugPrisonBlack WomenTerrificLatinoBlondeOld WomanGatewaysBlonde Girl Author:Jenji Kohan