Accepted Quote by Sandra Cisneros

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

— Andres Serrano

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

I've always been mistaken for being Latino.

— Sky Blu

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

Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

— Raquel Cepeda

Being Latina means I have culture I guess. We party together, cry together, and cook together. Or at least my family does as much…

— Alicia Sixtos

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

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

— Ariana DeBose

Latinos come from different countries, and they tend to segregate with only their country instead of embracing all the other countries, because in reality,…

— Andrea Navedo

Just because we finally have a Latino family on TV doesn't mean we're up there to lecture people about what it means to be…

— Nicholas Gonzalez

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

— Sandra Cisneros

“Latino history is like a river dividing the United States and Mexico. It is shared by several different cultures and called by many different…

— Ilan Stavans