Latino Quotes

All my Latino side is from the Bronx.

— Jimmy Smits

Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!

— Bad Bunny

“El Mero, Mero Paletero!”

— Paul Ramirez

And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

— Merle Haggard

I get offered a lot of black roles, because apparently I dont look Latino enough.

— Tristan Wilds

I grew up in a small Latino community that was very masculine-driven.

— Adore Delano

There just aren't enough positive portrayals of Latino life in film.

— Jimmy Smits

Latino poets, are really having a significant impact on American poetics today.

— Kwame Dawes

Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

Latinos are a vital but underrepresented force in this country.

— Ana Ortiz

I don't want to be pitted as a person who is anti-Latino or anti-Hispanic because I believe in the laws.

— Andrew Breitbart

In America we need members of the Latino community to come to the Tea Party movement and enrich the Tea Party.

— Andrew Breitbart

I'm pan-Latino, or whatever that phrase is. It's not a sexy phrase, but it is a sexy, cool thing. That's how I…

— Stephanie Beatriz

Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for…

— Joe Baca

I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican…

— Aaron Sanchez

“Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink…

— Raquel Cepeda

I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want…

— Oscar Isaac

The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what…

— Daddy Yankee

The kind of love that these young men have and the respect that they have for their fathers, I don't see that…

— Kevin Costner

As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever…

— Daniel Sunjata

I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or…

— Eva Mendes

I think that that's why Bernie's [Sanders] message is resonating the way that it does with everyone, including Latinos, is because, you…

— Lucy Flores

This has been a huge problem for a very long period of time that we have, that Mexico's economy and Mexico's socialist…

— Andrew Breitbart

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a…

— Barack Obama

There are Latino people in our world who believe strongly that if you are Latino you should speak the language, you should…

— Selenis Leyva

It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police…

— Jan Brewer

I had serious reservations about putting my son in the public schools in my area. I have a tremendous amount of fear…

— Ana Castillo

All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of…

— Tom Hayden

“Again, this week as I walked on Broadway, in front of giant photographs of voluptuous supermodels at a Victoria Secret mega-store, who…

— Sergio Troncoso

The fact is, is that Americans don't hate their Muslim neighbors. They don't hate their Latino neighbors. We have got to build…

— 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…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing…

— Patricia Hill Collins

It's a campaign strategy. He's all about getting the votes. I support gay marriage too, but Obama only does things to stir…

— Barack Obama

People take pride in being Irish-American and Italian-American. They have a particular culture that infuses the whole culture and makes it richer…

— Barack Obama

Just because you are Latino does not mean you can't be global.

— J Balvin

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

— Sanaa Lathan

As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

— Xavier Becerra

I believe we have to bring Broadway a little Latino flair. We have to keep it alive.

— Ricky Martin

You cannot just boil down what it is to be Latino in one thing.

— Ariana DeBose