Latino Quotes - Page 5

• Poor is the new black. So on this film [The Land], there are poor black people, but there are also poor Latinos, and poor white people as well.

  Steven Caple Jr.

  Land, White, People

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• If you don't know, your labor unions and community organizations, there's somebody you can ask to guide you. A lot of people, especially in the Latino community, they have this big ballot and all these names and propositions on it, and they say 'Oh my God'. They don't know which of these to vote for, so they don't vote.

  Dolores Huerta

  Names, Organization, People

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Years, Fiction, Remember

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• We started an organization that's the only sub-organization of the MacArthur Foundation and we are called the Macarturos. Usually when I win something, I'm the only one of my ethnicity to get it, but this time I met all these Latinos, and I was so excited. I'd meet someone and I'd go, [...] "Can you come to San Antonio?" And they'd go, "Oh yeah." [...] And suddenly I had twelve people that said they would come. And I didn't know how it was going to be. And that's how the Macarturos became a reality, where these very generous geniuses come to San Antonio and work together.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Winning, Reality, Ethnicity

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I say that now we see a lot of hateful rhetoric against Mexicans and the Latino community, but we have a very powerful weapon. And that is our vote. This is the way we can get even with all of the politicians who are insulting us and saying terrible things about our community - by voting them out. And get the good ones. Vote them in.

  Dolores Huerta

  Powerful, Voting, Community

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• Many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and are only one step away from being homeless. Whether you are white, black, Latino, or Asian, we have to be there to help pick each other up.

  Raheem Devaughn

  White, Black, Steps

  "Raheem DeVaughn: Love, Love, and More Love". Interview with Faith Hunter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Yoga class is intimate even just from the standpoint of taking off your socks. Exposing your bare feet can be a big deal. You may be an African American next to a Caucasian or a Latino. But once practice begins and we drop in, separation dissolves.

  James Fox

  Yoga, Practice, Class

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• You can expect to see a robust discussion and representation of those issues throughout the convention program. Not just from the nominee, but through other vehicles as well. Expect to see the African-American community, the Latino community, the LGBT community, and others represented on stage and in the substance of our policies throughout the week.

  Leah D. Daughtry

  Lgbt Community, Issues, African American

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I worry these days that Latinos in California speak neither Spanish nor English very well. They are in a kind of linguistic limbo between the two. They don't really have a language, and are, in some deep sense, homeless.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Two, California, Worry

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• an the president bring out the voters who were so enthusiastic about him in 2008 and seem a little disenchanted now? Can he bring out young people? Can he bring out Latinos? Can he bring out those white suburban moms?

  Anna Quindlen

  Mom, White, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 75%-90% of the murders that occur in black and Latino communities are solvable. Everybody knows who did it or somebody knows. The reason nobody talks is because snitches get stitches and people aren't bulletproof.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  People, Community, Black

  Source: deadline.com

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• We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jail, People

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• My comedy has no color, it's for everybody, black, white, Latino, Asian. It's not a pro-black show, not a def jam show; it's just straight, wholesome type of humor.

  Bruce Bruce

  Color, White, Black

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• I see a Latino comic as someone who can only perform for Latino audiences. I cross the board.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Boards, Comic, Crosses

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• In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  People, Trying, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's easier for African American and white comics to be praised than it is Latinos because they think our culture or our humor is substandard. I mean, I just don't think they want to give us credit. I just don't think that they see us as important enough to be at their level. I'm the longest-produced comedy at Warner Bros. and I don't feel special. They come over and say hello. But everybody's gonna make a lot of money and I don't feel like I'm special to them.

  George Lopez

  Mean, Thinking, White

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• I'm half-Mexican - get used to it 'cause in about five to 10 years, you're all gonna be related to one. Whether you like it or not, no matter how much you prepared your family, you're gonna show up at Thanksgiving one of these years, you're gonna walk in and say, 'Hey! What's happening? Since when did we start serving flan?' Well, what's happening is that somebody's boning a Latino.

  Al Madrigal

  Years, Mexican, Hey

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• Whenever another Latino tells me they're more Mexican than me I stop working and let them do the work for me.

  Felipe Esparza

  Mexican

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• 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.

  Eva Longoria

  Beach, Thinking, Vacation

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Latinos outnumber Black people now. I'm not too happy about it. Because it's only a matter of time before we lose our month. Soon as they figure it out, they're going to have Latino History Month. All we're going to have is Cinco de Negro.

  Alonzo Bodden

  People, Black, Matter

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• One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me: advocate, activist, gay, Filipino, undocumented person, gay person with an Asian face and Latino name.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Gay, Names, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Ideas, People, Black

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• The problem with that is there are very few Latinos, Blacks and women who will have the same experiences as a white 25 year old male who went to Stanford.

  Kathryn Finney

  Years, White, Males

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Hillary Clinton is under fire from Latinos, specifically online. This comes from a recent blog post by Clinton's campaign that was meant to reach out to Latinos. Instead, it offended many people.

  Ari Shapiro

  Fire, People, Campaigns

  "#NotMyAbuela: Hillary Clinton Offends Some Latinos With Blog Post". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. December 23, 2015.

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• Interestingly, a lot of the polling that I see is not along racial lines, but along generational lines. We are doing better and better among younger people, not so well among older people, whether they're African-American, whether they're white or whether they're Latino.

  Bernie Sanders

  White, People, African American

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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