Hispanic American Quotes

“I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“I hated seeing these spasmodic upside-down chicken heads stretching to puncture my flesh. I imagined once that they reached my groin and pecked out my penis and my huevos and kept pecking until they got to my gut and my eyes and my brain, until I was just a pecked-out piece of human meat surrounded by thousands of nervous, dirty white chickens. I think that was about the time I fucked up a pair of chicken heads against a warehouse wall when no one was looking. Well, almost no one. Rueben was right behind me, and that's when he grinned his stupid grin. Maybe he hated the chickens as much as I did. Maybe he just knew que ya me iba también a la chingada. Maybe I was going on my first joy ride to hell and back, and it was fun to watch.”
― Sergio Troncoso, The Last Tortilla & Other Stories

“I have since betrayed her
with a facility closer to my home
my burden too great to wheel
three extra blocks forsaking
communion for convenience

there I wash and fold with true
toilers nonowners fabric slaves
loveless and rightfully so
we share no confidences
only questions like complaints

my devotion to repetition
precision creases
organized by roy g biv
all underground all unnoticed
my order private
stop asking me to do yours”
― Sheila Maldonado, that's what you get

“If your neighbor's lawn looks better than yours, don't let jealousy consume you ..... start working on yours. With love and dedication, your side will look better than their.”
― Maria Hernandez, Trapped

“In January 2013, the Republican "Hispanic Leadership Network" issued a diktat to elected Republicans, coaching them on which words and phrases they may and may not use...Other Republicans slavishly followed the Hispanic Leadership Network's directions. Trump proceeded to violate every rule--as well as a few new ones.”
― Ann Coulter, In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!

“Latin not Lethal (The Sonnet)

Yes I am latino and proud,
That doesn't make me a thug.
Yes I am brown in color and loud,
That doesn't mean I'm a lethal bug.
Some of us can't speak English,
That doesn't make us second-rate.
We care for family as much as you,
In friendship we walk to the world's end.
Savage imperialists walked on our corpses,
While they snatched our lands and homes.
Yet you call us illegal and dangerous,
Showing no remorse or desire to atone!
None of us can undo the past I know.
Our kids may walk together, let's make sure.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“If America fails in advancement, so will the world,
If South America fails in liberty, so will the world.
If Mexico fails in passion, so will the world,
If India fails in diversity, so will the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Viajaréis a lugares remotos, recorreréis parajes sorprendentes, conoceréis culturas extravagantes, viviréis experiencias únicas, encontraréis a seres necesitados; y lo que haréis por ellos, Dios os lo devolverá con creces.”
― Javier Moro, A flor de piel

“Ser filántropo conllevaba una cierta arrogancia, no era para sentimentales.”
― Javier Moro, A flor de piel

“LATINO means Loud, Loving And Tenacious, Ingenious in Obscurity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“The US education system works well, just not for lower-SES students, it's said. Ravitch and friends would take credit for successes in the segment of the population where educational quality has less impact and relinquish responsibility for the children for whom educational quality matters most. Rather than focusing narrowly on the undeniably large role of poverty in poor achievement, we might also focus on the undeniably large role that education could play in improving outcomes.”
― Mark Seidenberg, Language at the Speed of Sight

“We call ourselves Mexican-American to signify we are neither Mexican nor American, but more the noun 'American' than the adjective 'Mexican'...This voluntary (yet forced) alienation makes for psychological conflict, a kind of dual identity— we don't identify with the Anglo-American cultural values and we don't totally identify with the Mexican cultural values. We are a synergy of two cultures with various degrees of Mexicanness or Angloness. I have so internalized the borderland conflict that sometimes I feel like one cancels out the other and we are zero, nothing, no one. A veces no soy nada ni nadie. Pero hasta cuando no lo soy, lo soy.”
― Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza