Always Quote by Carlos Mencia

I grew up around so many different people in so many different neighborhoods, but the Latino heritage, the neighborhoods, and people have always been…

— Roy Choi

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

— Tyler Posey

Definitely that was a big part of my childhood: wanting to fit. As an immigrant, you talk funny, you look funny, you smell funny.…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

My grandmother would always tell me that I was hers, that I was Mexican. That was her role. It was not my teacher's role…

— Richard Rodriguez

As the proud son of immigrants from Mexico, I watched my parents work resiliently hard for 40 years, my father as a cook and…

— Alex Padilla

I was torn between the Americanness my mom wanted for me and the Mexicanness my father wanted - they were wrestling for cultural influence…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

My parents made choices that would put me in environments where I would feel comfortable. And I'm really appreciative of that. They made sure…

— Carolyn Aronson

I think people couldn't really put me in [one race]. I wasn't Mexican, I wasn't white, I wasn't black, I wasn't Asian... I wasn't…

— Jessica Alba

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

— Mitt Romney

For me, I'm an American and I'm a Mexican. I live here. And it hurts me the way a lot of people talk about…

— Andy Ruiz Jr

I was in Mexico City prior to L.A. and doing my thing, not really knowing what the experience of being a Latino or Latina…

— Melissa Barrera

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in…

— Ted Cruz