Campaigns Quote by Guillermo Gomez-Pena

Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrived, as well…

— Ana Castillo

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

— Cheech Marin

It's really fascinating how society has chosen to view or define what it is to be Latino. Latinos are not a monolith. There's no…

— Ariana DeBose

On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way of seeing…

— Benjamin Bratt

Latinos have not historically been a culture that unites easily. We're very factioned - you have your Mexican Americans, your Puerto Ricans, your Cuban…

— Eva Longoria

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

— Cheech Marin

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we…

— Sandra Cisneros

“Multiculturalism became the cutting edge of post-civil-rights-movement US history revisionism. For this scheme to work—and affirm US historical progress—Indigenous nations and communities had to…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

— Andres Serrano

You cannot just boil down what it is to be Latino in one thing.

— Ariana DeBose

Latinos are not monochromatic. You know, they trace their ancestry back to South America, to Central America, to Mexico, like in my family, and…

— Eric Garcetti

The Left, however, resists anglicizing Spanish terms because its political agenda relies on encouraging illegal immigration from Latin America and discouraging the assimilation of…

— Michael J. Knowles