Accepted Quote by Mary Doria Russell

I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

— Placido Domingo

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

My parents, Santos and Lupe Padilla, immigrated separately from Mexico and met in Los Angeles in the late 1960s. It was love at first…

— Alex Padilla

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

— Natalie Massenet

I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.

— Karan Mahajan

I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a…

— Susan Choi

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

— Kamala Harris

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 went to a high school that specialized in art and design, and I had a teacher there who was Mexican and exposed us…

— Quinta Brunson

I do have very deep, fond memories of my family in Mexico City, but I also remember feeling funny for not speaking English -…

— Louis C. K

When I was 15 and then 16 years old, I spent two summers in Nicaragua for a service project. I took Spanish classes the…

— Eden Sher

I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I…

— Lupita Nyong'o