Quotes of: Latina Keyword

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

Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

Monica Raymund

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

Newt Gingrich

I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

Gabriela Isler

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

Sonia Sotomayor

I want to steer away from the stereotypes that Latina women are categorized in. I feel like there are so many more opportunities for us. I like going out for those roles that says 'open ethnicity.'

Emily Rios

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

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

You are meant to be, despite how you got here; you’ll see someday.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

Sandra Cisneros

I would hope more people would have optimism about where the Latino has come. How we have emerged, and that there will be more women, women of color especially Latinas who will get involved.

Hilda Solis

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.

Sandra Cisneros

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

Camille Paglia

My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.

Bella Thorne

The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina