Living Quote by Cheech Marin

There are some Chicanos who don't want to be Chicanos - they want to be Mexican-American, Hispanic, or even Spanish.

— Cheech Marin

The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans become…

— Guillermo Gomez-Pena

Don't ever insult a Chicano about being a Chicano because then all the other Chicanos will be on you with a vengeance. They will…

— Cheech Marin

To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant…

— Cheech Marin

You have to want to be Chicano to be Chicano.

— Cheech Marin

I was interested in a lot of subjects from very early on. And that's uniquely Chicano because every Chicano I knew always had three…

— Cheech Marin

I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.

— Gary Soto

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

— Sandra Cisneros

“We’re afraid the others will think we’re agringadas because we don’t speak Chicano Spanish. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each other, vying…

— Gloria Anzaldúa

“Aztlán (“The Place of the Reeds”) was the traditional home of the Aztecs, a possibly mythical motherland from which the tribe ventured forth on…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

The language in New Mexico is very different. At first when you hear the speech here, you don't really know what to do with…

— Ana Castillo

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

— Andres Serrano