Even Quote by Cheech Marin

You have to want to be Chicano to be Chicano.

— Cheech Marin

The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.

— Cheech Marin

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

“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

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

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 don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.

— Harry Reid

I don't focus on being a minority or being Puerto Rican.

— Alex Cora

I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.

— Gary Soto

We were doing the same thing. We will never have "a" Chicano English or Spanish because of regional differences. But I think that because…

— Ana Castillo

Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal…

— Lela Loren