I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino. ' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.
Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade.
There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.
This movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is as much for the general market as it is for Latino audiences. That's a really exciting prospect.
And Hillary Clinton is going to do nothing for the African- American worker, the Latino worker.
This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.
There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is
I explain that as Latinos, we can also be professionals.
Something is fundamentally amiss when you refer to a person as illegal. Bottom line. That's why we so easily talk about this like we're talking about plants or crops. These illegals. My God, man, it's so tragic to me traveling around this country, this country that is getting more and more Latino, and you hear people use the words "illegal" and "Mexican" interchangeably. Interchangeably. Without blinking an eye.
As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
I think most people assume if you're a Latino in Texas, you're Mexican. It's not really a problem, and I love so much about Mexican culture and the Mexican people.
I love Latino culture but I hate the concept of "la raza. " It is a divisive mindset.
As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.
The only people that deserve to be called Americans are Native Americans, otherwise, I'm a Latino American, you know. . . . Anybody else. . . well where did you come from?
The majority of Latinos in this country are 28 years old or younger. All of those people out there attacking the Latino community, when you see a Latino going down the street with a baby carriage and a couple of children walking beside them, they should say 'Hey, there goes my social security and my Medicare. ' Those are the people that are going to contribute to keep our social security system funded and our medical system funded.
New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.
There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
I mean, I grew up in the Valley. All my friends were white Jewish kids. So the Latino kids thought I was this white girl.
If you go to a network and say, "I wanna do prison stories about black women and Latino women and old women," you're not gonna make a sale. But, if you've got this blonde girl going to prison, you can get in there, and then you can tell all the stories. I just thought it was a terrific gateway drug into all the things I wanted to get into.
Donald Trump really has, truly has motivated the Latino community more than any other presidential candidate, I think, in generations, and motivated them in a negative way.
