“This movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is as much for the general market as it is for Latino audiences. That's a really exciting prospect.” AudienceExcitingLatino Author:Karla Souza
“I [read] "The Book of Unknown Americans," which is by a friend of mine, Cristina Henriquez, and is about two Latino, immigrant families who live in Delaware. I'm interested in reading things from different perspectives.” TwoBookDifferentReadingMinesPerspectiveImmigrantsLatinoDifferent PerspectiveDelaware Author:Laila Lalami
“I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.” ThinkingLastsCommunityCenturyBurdenAfrican AmericanNativeNative AmericanUnfairLatino Author:Van Jones
“If there's one thing I've learned in the last 18+ years of interacting with over 60,000 people during my vegan lecture tour, it's that everyone is the same, whether they are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist, Republican, Democrat, independent, socialist, fascist, black, white, Asian, Latino, Native, pro-life, pro-choice, pro-gun or anti-gun.” PeopleIfsYearsChristianLastsChoicesBlackWhiteOne ThingRepublicanGunIndependentDemocratAtheistBuddhistI've LearnedNativeVeganSocialistAsianLecturesLatinoFascistsPro LifeInteractingPro GunThings I've LearnedBlack WhiteAnti Gun Author:Gary Yourofsky
“[ Donald Trump] is a man who ran on building a wall. And I know it was about legal immigration, but he did say incredibly vociferous things about Mexican-Americans and the Latino community that, frankly, regardless of if you take him literally or not, which most of his supporters don't - while they took him seriously, they didn't take him literally.” IfsKnowsMenCommunityBuildingWallTrumpImmigrationRanSupporterMexicanLatinoLegal ImmigrationMexican American Author:Margaret Hoover
“Donald Trump really has, truly has motivated the Latino community more than any other presidential candidate, I think, in generations, and motivated them in a negative way.” ThinkingWayCommunityGenerationsTrumpNegativePresidentialCandidatesMotivatedLatinoPresidential Candidate Author:Julian Castro
“Today, we have come a distance. We have made a lot of progress. That cannot be denied. You cannot dispute the fact that our country is so different from 50 years ago. But we still have problems. There are too many people that have been left out and left behind, and they are African American, they are White, Latino, Asian American, and Native American.” PeopleYearsHas BeensMadeStillsDifferentCountryFactsProblemTodayLeftWhiteBehindsProgressYears AgoDistanceOur CountryAfrican AmericanNativeDeniedNative AmericanDisputesLeft BehindAsianLatinoLeft OutAsian American Author:John Lewis
“When we think about the issues that matter, obviously the news covers immigration, a lot. You might think immigration is the only story that actually affects us but when you poll Latinos you'll see that education is the number one topic that they're interested in talking about and economy is the second issue.” ThinkingMatterStoriesMightNumbersTalkingEconomyIssuesNewsImmigrationTopicsPollsLatino Author:Soledad O'Brien
“It doesn't upset me when people are annoyed or bothered by what may seem to them as a redundancy of topics about blacks and Latinos. As a reporter I welcome those types of conversations and dialogues. Even when it's uncomfortable, it's still necessary.” PeopleMayStillsSeemsTypeConversationDialogueWelcomeUpsetUncomfortableReportersTopicsBotheredLatinoAnnoyedRedundancy Author:Soledad O'Brien
“People want to know how do they pay for education and they want to figure out how to find and maintain meaningful employment. Education and the economy are polled by Latinos as the top two most important issues. But those are also the issues that everyone cares about, regardless of race; so we don't need to be divided over it.” PeopleKnowsWantNeedsTwoImportantCarePayRaceKnow HowEconomyIssuesFiguresMeaningfulEmploymentOver ItDividedLatinoImportant Issues Author:Soledad O'Brien
“In the West or anywhere else, the treatment of people in an undignified way (structural and institutionalized racism against Latinos or African American citizens) as well as a dangerous dehumanization of some people (in Palestine, Iraq, Africa or Asia) are simply unacceptable.” PeopleWayWellsDangerousCitizensRacismWestIraqAfrican AmericanTreatmentAsiaPalestineLatinoAmerican CitizensDehumanization Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the other category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly.” KnowsWayAgeTaughtTestsBottomAfrican AmericanCategoriesAsianLatinoPacificAnomaliesChecklistsCaucasianPacific Islanders Author:Jordan Peele
“Latino actors and actresses have had to struggle for decades, but when I came around with Real Women Have Curves, attitudes were starting to change. We screened the film all over the world - in Jewish communities, black communities, Greek communities, German communities - and people across the board said, "That's my family."” PeopleWorldRealFilmBlackCommunityAttitudeStruggleMy FamilyGreekLatinoReal Women Author:America Ferrera
“I am Latino. I'm proud of being Latino. That's not to say I wouldn't love to see more diversity in casting. It's starting to get better but we are nowhere near where we need to be. But I'm not scared of playing Latinos, as long as they're well-drawn.” LongProudDiversityScaredGet BetterLatino Author:Carlo Alban
“We must never allow demagogues to divide us up by race, by religion, by national origin, by gender, or sexual orientation. Black and whites, Latino, Asian-American, Native American, Christian, Jew, Muslim, and every religion - straight or gay, male or female - we must stand together. This country belongs to all of us.” CountryChristianTogetherBlackGayFemaleJewGenderNativeBlack And WhiteNative AmericanLatino Author:Bernie Sanders
“I had serious reservations about putting my son in the public schools in my area. I have a tremendous amount of fear for the future of my boy. He's nine-and- a-half and dark-skinned. By the time he's 12 or 13, who knows who he's going to be identifying with in these days when you get shot down for wearing expensive Nikes to school...I've heard that if a Latino makes it to 19 years of age, he has a good chance of surviving into adulthood. Up until then, you don't know.” AgeSchoolChanceBoysSeriousSonMy SonAdulthoodSurvivingPublic SchoolLatinoMy BoysNike Author:Ana Castillo
“There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of America.” BlackLatino Author:Barack Obama
“We do not need to have a president who insults Mexicans and Latinos and Muslims and women and veterans and African-Americans, we need a president who brings us together, not divides us up.” TogetherPresidentInsultVeteranLatino Author:Bernie Sanders
“One of the challenges, especially since, like, something like 40 percent of the Latino population is foreign born, is - and one of the new issues is how do we integrate all these immigrants, right?” ChallengesLatinoIntegrating Author:Maria Echaveste
“If you look at the state of California, the children who are not receiving the education that they should are both black and Latino children. And together they would represent a majority of progressive voters in the state of California. And the state is still very, very broken.” ChildrenTogetherBlackBrokenProgressiveLatino Author:Maria Echaveste
“I really do think Trump's election comes down to respect. It comes down to being gracious. It comes down to really showing compassion for the problems of the black and Latino communities. And I really hope that Donald Trump takes the ball that's in his court and tries to go after those voters, tries to show some compassion, and really offers them something substantive to get excited about Republican and conservative policy.” ThinkingTryingProblemBlackCommunityCompassionPolicyRepublicanElectionConservativeExcitedLatinoGracious Author:James Vance
“Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day. And let my say community policing is a great idea. It's worked in the Hoosier state. And we fully support that. Donald Trump and I are going to make sure that law enforcement have the resources and the tools to be able to really restore law and order to the cities and communities in this nation.” MenCommunitySupportHe ManMen And WomenPoliceLaw EnforcementLatinoGreat IdeaPolice OfficerLaw And OrderHispanic Author:Mike Pence
“When I hear that Jennifer Lopez is such a role model for Latinas, on the one hand I respect her for her business sense and I respect her for her ambition. But she's in the entertainment world. She's done it on her looks and very specifically on her anatomy. Madonna is also considered a great businesswoman and so is Yoko Ono. I feel if I had a young daughter right now, I would feel a little discouraged if that was my daughter's primary role model for success and for young people, for Latinas and Latinos.” PeopleWorldDoneAmbitionDaughterMy DaughterRole ModelsDiscouragedLatinoAnatomyJenniferGreat BusinessLatina Author:Ana Castillo
“I have always been actively involved in my community, belonging to organizations that promote the interests of Latinos. But I also know that the issues we confront are the same issues, in many respects, as the larger community. So what we do helps not just us but everybody.” HelpingInterestCommunityBelongingLatino Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“We want everybody to think about what's in their interests. And I believe that our Democratic party platform has a better vision and better actually pathway for white Americans, as well black Americans, Latino Americans, women, and so forth, to be successful.” ThinkingBelieveI BelieveBlackInterestPartyVisionSuccessfulDemocraticBeing SuccessfulDemocratic PartyLatino Author:Cory Booker
“I'm aware of what my effect on the populous could be, and I try to use it in a positive way, whether it be in an Instagram post or a tweet, or promoting whatever new job that I have. I don't figure too much as a Latino man coming up, or a certain ethnic man. I'm very, very proud of being a Mexican-American man, but I would rather people just see me as a man coming up who just happens to be Mexican.” PeopleMenTryingProudMexicanLatinoTweetNew Job Author:Ryan Guzman
“The fact is, yes, statistically, African Americans and Latinos are getting hit harder, but it`s something that we can have real solidarity across racial lines on, to raise the minimum wage, to lower the cost of going to college, to make sure there`s real consumer protection.” RealCollegeProtectionAfrican AmericanSolidarityLatinoGoing To College Author:Keith Ellison
“We will fight back against attacks on Latinos, on African-Americans, on women, on Muslims, on immigrants, on disabled Americans, on everyone. Whether Donald Trump sits in a glass tower or sits in the White House, we will not give an inch on this. Not now, not ever.” GivingFightingHouseLatino Author:Elizabeth Warren
“I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English. The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages. Every language has influences and is an influence.” LanguageInfluenceInspiredAncientGreekLatinEnglish LanguageLatinoHebrewForeign LanguageYiddish Author:Amos Oz
“The War on Drugs is a war on people, but particularly it's been a war on low-income people and a war on minorities. We know in the United States of America there is no difference in drug use between black, white and Latinos. But if you're Latino in the United States of America, you're about twice as likely to be arrested for drug use than if you're white. If you're black, you are about four times as likely to be arrested if you're African American than if you are white. This drug war has done so much to destroy, undermine, sabotage families, communities, neighborhoods, cities.” PeopleWarDoneBlackCommunityDrugAfrican AmericanNeighborhoodLatinoWar On DrugsSabotage Author:Cory Booker
“From my perspective, we actually have to have a stronger, bolder economic message that's not just for white working-class voters, but for people who don't go to college who are white, black, Latino, or wherever. We have to communicate that we care about Detroit and Appalachia, and people suffering in both are problems for the country and a problem for the Democratic Party, not just one or just the other.” PeopleCountryProblemCareSufferingBlackPartyEconomicCollegePerspectiveStrongerDemocraticCommunicateDemocratic PartyLatino Author:Neera Tanden
“Trump's dividing us. Yes, but people were already divided; Trump just expressed that division. And we have to find a way to, within a very heterogeneous party, even though we're the minority, we're a much more diverse party, of course, than the Republicans are. How do we talk about universal programs, have a universal message, and make sure we're talking about recent immigrants and non-immigrants, African-Americans, Latinos, LGBT people, as well? To me, that is a serious problem.” PeopleProblemPartySeriousRepublicanProgramLgbtDiverseLatino Author:Michael Kazin
“I feel like I'm changing as a human being, and I think that the work needed to be in line with where I'm at. When I was younger and I was making political work, I was trying to figure out where my work fit in because when you're young you're like, "I don't know." I'm Latino, I grew up in Mexico, and so I thought that maybe I had to talk about those things. Then finally I didn't need my identity to rely on anymore. So now the work is becoming about more esoteric things, I guess - my own sort of language.” ThinkingTryingPoliticalLanguageIdentityFitRelyLatino Author:Fernando Mastrangelo
“I write and produce what is on my heart - whatever I'm going through and whatever God is taking me through, and I've been blessed to have people record, produce and buy our music. I'm a Christian man who happens to be Latino, not a Latino who happens to be a Christian.” PeopleMenWritingHeartChristianMy HeartBlessedLatino Author:Ricardo Sanchez
“For instance, we have the largest Polish population of any city except for Warsaw, and the largest Lithuanian population outside Lithuania. More Italians, Greeks, Irish, Latinos, Serbians, and Croatians than you can shake a stick at. Chicago has it all, I don't know why I'd ever leave.” GreekLatino Author:Kevin Drumm
“Latino poets, are really having a significant impact on American poetics today.” TodayPoetSignificantLatino Author:Kwame Dawes
“People ask me: "Do I consider myself to be a Latino writer?" "What does it mean to be Latino?" Those are very strange questions to answer , but feminism is easier because it's just an ideology, a way I live my life. And absolutely in the most political sense I try to sit down and write very strong female roles.” PeopleWritingTryingMeanPoliticalStrongFeminismStrangeFemaleIdeologyAsk MeVery StrongLiving My LifeLatinoI Live My LifeStrong Female Author:Quiara Alegria Hudes
“If I were the Mexican-American father of a young child who was having trouble sleeping because of Donald Trump, or who was being bullied in school because of Trump, or who was becoming ashamed of her own background because of Trump, and Trump somehow slipped away from his security and was walking down a corridor alone to use the men's room at the restaurant where I worked - if I had that chance to confront him, what would I do? Of course if a Mexican or Latino harmed Trump, it would only make things worse. Let John McCain do it. He's a soldier.” ChildrenSchoolFatherChanceSleepTroubleSecurityWalkingSoldierAshamedMexicanLatinoBulliedMccainBeing Bullied Author:Francisco Goldman
“We have a broken system, and we need politicians who are going to fix it. We need someone who's going to govern on behalf of everyone in this country, including immigrants. The fact of the matter is, the candidates need the Latino vote to win. If we feel we're not being represented and if we feel like the candidate is insulting us, ignoring us, and is not leading with fairness and empathy, I think that's going to be reflected in turnout.” ThinkingCountryWinningBrokenPoliticianEmpathyVoteFairnessLatinoInsulting Author:Diane Guerrero
“Too often the media assumes that "poverty" is an African American or a Latino issue. Of course, that's nonsense. While a higher percentage of the African American and Latino population does live in poverty as compared to the white population, when overall numbers are looked at, it is clear that people of all races, ethnicities, and colors, are represented amongst America's poor.” PeoplePoorPovertyAssumingAfrican AmericanNonsenseLatino Author:Sasha Abramsky
“Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos still experience far more unemployment than do whites and Asians, average wages are lower, and household wealth is lower. A smaller percentage of African Americans and Latinos attend, and complete, college, than is the case with whites and Asians, and a higher percentage end up in prison. All of these are indicators of massive disparities in opportunity, and these disparities are mirrored in poverty data.” PastOpportunityWealthPovertyEconomicCollegePrisonCivil RightsAfrican AmericanLatino Author:Sasha Abramsky
“The fact is, is that Donald Trump knows that as he rifles money from the working and middle classes up to the super rich, he has to sow division among working people, because if working people and middle-class people really take a look at his economic policy, they will come together, and they will stop it. So, what he has to do is to promote racism - hate the Muslims, hate the Latinos, hate the blacks, you know, have male - men and women at each other's throats, you know, make sure we repress the trans people.” PeopleMenTogetherHateRichEconomicPolicyRacismMen And WomenMiddle ClassLatino Author:Keith Ellison
“The fact is, is that Americans don't hate their Muslim neighbors. They don't hate their Latino neighbors. We have got to build human solidarity in this country, because human solidarity is what's going to allow us to come together to protect our democracy and to protect our economy. So reject the hate. Turn it away. Don't buy it. And reach out to a neighbor. Trump is trying to sow division so that he can distract us from what he's doing to us.” TryingCountryTogetherHateEconomyDemocracyProtectNeighborReach OutSolidarityLatino Author:Keith Ellison
“Something is fundamentally amiss when you refer to a person as illegal. Bottom line. That's why we so easily talk about this like we're talking about plants or crops. These illegals. My God, man, it's so tragic to me traveling around this country, this country that is getting more and more Latino, and you hear people use the words "illegal" and "Mexican" interchangeably. Interchangeably. Without blinking an eye.” PeopleMenCountryEyePlantBottomTragicMexicanLatino Author:Jose Antonio Vargas
“I like the labels because I think they tell my story in a very concise way: gay, Latino. I think the responsibility that comes with accepting labels is that now I get a chance to break stereotypes. It gives me the opportunity to tell the unique stories of what those labels mean.” ThinkingGivingMeanOpportunityChanceResponsibilityAcceptingBreakGayUniqueStereotypeLatino Author:Richard Blanco
“Everything is symbolic. If they'd picked some middle-aged white guy, well, that would have been a symbol, but it wouldn't have been shocking because that's the expected norm, right? I felt I was a good match: here's an accomplished poet, and he's also gay and Latino.” GuyPoetGayAccomplishedNormLatino Author:Richard Blanco
“Latinos have not historically been a culture that unites easily. We're very factioned - you have your Mexican Americans, your Puerto Ricans, your Cuban Americans, your Central Americans - and sometimes we focus on the differences more than the commonalities.” SometimesCultureFocusMexicanLatinoCubanCommonality Author:Eva Longoria
“What I want to do is create great content on television and movies. It is not my role to program only for Latinos, and you can't really assume that Hispanics only want Hispanic content. But I do think that we are severely underrepresented in television and film. And instead of complaining about not seeing ourselves, we should become film producers, directors, and writers, and tell our story.” ThinkingFilmProgramAssumingComplainingProducersLatinoHispanic Author:Eva Longoria
“Let me tell you, a vacation's not a vacation unless it involves the beach. And because of that, I'm super careful with my skin and make sure to protect it. I always sit under an umbrella. And I'm a sunblock bully. If you're on the beach with me, I will spray you down with SPF 50-plus. Latinos, especially, think that we don't burn or don't get sun damage because of our darker skin. And it's not true. We are just as susceptible to melanoma as everyone else.” ThinkingProtectSkinsLet MeCarefulBeachVacationBullyLatinoUmbrella Author:Eva Longoria