Best Chicano Quotes

#1. I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my mind with ideas beyond the everyday. It is another borderland I inhabit. Not quite here nor there. On good days I feel I am a bridge. On bad days I just feel alone.

Sergio Troncoso

#2. The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.

Cheech Marin

#3. I'm in crisis. I'm about to bump with a five-foot chino-chicano.

Megan McCafferty

#4. Because of her, there is no bridge between dreams and reality. In reality, because of her, drinking a glass of water has taste. In a dream, it doesn't have taste, unless she's in it with me. I do not have to dream about her, because all of my dreams about her, is my only reality.

Lionel Suggs

#5. I was interested in a lot of subjects from very early on. And that's uniquely Chicano because every Chicano I knew always had three jobs.

Cheech Marin

#6. What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?

J.K. Rowling

#7. A cormorant broke the surface, like an improbable idea tearing the membrane between dreams and life.

Peter Carey

#8. You have to want to be Chicano to be Chicano.

Cheech Marin

#9. No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country ... we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

Luis Valdez

#10. The storm had come out of nowhere, tossing the ship like a toy on the waves. The sea had played along until it had tired of the game, and dragged their boat under in a tangle of rope and sail and screaming men.

Leigh Bardugo

#11. I am representing California, and all of California, definitely as a Mexicano, a Chicano, a Latino.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#12. Your tears of sorrow today will bring bliss in the future ...

Ras Obenn

#13. It is interesting that both Chicano and Puerto Rican art in the United States form an important part of the Civil Rights legacy and dialog.

Mari Carmen Ramirez

#14. Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.

Cheech Marin

#16. I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.

Alan Moore

#17. So what if you're not perfect? nobody else is either.

Joyce Meyer

#18. An uneducated thief may steal goods from the train but an educated one may steal the entire train. We need to compete for knowledge and wisdom, not for grades.

Shiv Khera

#19. I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

Robin Ince

#20. I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together.

Angela Davis

#21. All I'm saying is that if you love someone, you should be willing to show it.

Lauren Myracle

#22. Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication ... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it.

Cheech Marin

#23. We cannot and we must not allow ourselves to get distracted from our sacred duty. We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#24. I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.

Gary Soto

#25. Don't ever insult a Chicano about being a Chicano because then all the other Chicanos will be on you with a vengeance. They will even fight each to be first in line to support you.

Cheech Marin

#26. But please allow me to introduce myself. I'm Logan Mitchell, and this is Tate Morrison, and he is my partner.

Ella Frank

#27. The best proof of love is trust

Joyce Brothers

#28. I don't have a problem with these Arizona laws. I have a problem with Chicano, Gay and Lesbian, Asian-American and African-American histories not being taught in American History courses.

M.G. Hardie

#29. We're afraid the others will think we're agringadas because we don't speak Chicano Spanish. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each other, vying to be "real" Chicanas, to speak like Chicanos. There is no one Chicano language just as there is no one Chicano experience.

Gloria E. Anzaldua

#30. By the time I discovered Chicano painters in the mid-'80s, I recognized that these guys were really world-class painters, but they weren't getting any attention, which was good in one sense in that I could get their work for cheaper!

Cheech Marin