Puerto Quotes
101 quotes by 73 authors
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Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed.…
— Jan Brewer
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In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the…
— H. Rap Brown
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On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee. Often it was freshly roasted…
— Laurie Colwin
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If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as…
— Dick Thornburgh
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Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico…
— Dick Thornburgh
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My mom's Puerto Rican. That's why I'm so lively and colorful.
— Aubrey Plaza
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You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And…
— Jennifer Esposito
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Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.
— Al Madrigal
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I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans.
— Thom Yorke
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I was like the only diverse kid in my high school, and I'm half-Puerto Rican. But yeah, I have a huge family and tons of…
— Aubrey Plaza
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The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans become indistinguishable),…
— Guillermo Gomez-Pena
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Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird.'…
— Marc Anthony
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In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of…
— Dick Thornburgh
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I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish…
— Geraldo Rivera
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What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.
— Sarah Vaughan
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All B.S. aside, it all comes down to... we got to survive. I mean, even warriors put their spears down on Sundays. We got to…
— Tupac Shakur
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After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for…
— Dick Thornburgh
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With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; where the…
— Fidel Castro
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If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their…
— Dick Thornburgh
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It's going to be crazy. I'm guessing when we play against the Dominicans, half the field will be Dominican fans and half will be Puerto…
— Carlos Beltran
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