Mexicans Quote by Luis Alberto Urrea

I grew up in Oakland and for a long time I was the only white kid in school. Then I moved to the suburbs…

— Ryan Fleck

“Most school desegregation suits were brought on behalf of blacks, but Mexican Americans also suffered various forms of school segregation throughout the southwestern states,…

— Derrick Bell

When I was in middle school, we had moved from Texas to Orange County. I didn't fit in, and it was pretty lonely.

— Pedro Pascal

I was in Mexico City prior to L.A. and doing my thing, not really knowing what the experience of being a Latino or Latina…

— Melissa Barrera

I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together. Everybody was…

— Toni Morrison

I lived in St. Louis, Missouri, and now my kids are growing up in Los Angeles, so that's culturally very different.

— Sterling K. Brown

I never really belonged anywhere. I wasn't white. I was shunned by the Latin community for not being Latin enough. My grandfather was the…

— Jessica Alba

I grew up in a highly Hispanic neighborhood. It was very rare to find any race other than Mexicans. I feel very comfortable around…

— Emily Rios

My parents immigrated to California from Mexico in the 1960s in search of a better life. They arrived from different regions of Mexico with…

— Alex Padilla

Mexico doesn't seem alien to Californians.

— Michelle Stuart

I went to an all-white school in high school.

— Bradley Beal

When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!

— Meagan Good