America Quote by Eduardo Galeano

Latin America is not that different from the rest of the world. Some of us have been trying to get from the edges into…

— Daniela Vega

We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of…

— Tom Freston

And in this relentlessly unfolding series of interactions, the U.S. has played a very distinctive role, which most Americans have been either shielded from…

— Edward Said

In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

— Barry Lopez

I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that…

— Sebastian Pinera

The U.S. should not continue to ignore Latin America. Our nation shares regional and cultural ties with these neighboring countries.

— Mercedes Schlapp

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

— Will Rogers

Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.

— Georgie Anne Geyer

For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.

— Marco Rubio

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

— Sergio Leone

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.

— Ruben Blades