Quotes About Being Hispanic

#1. Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Demi Lovato

#2. I'm proud of being Hispanic.

Lisa Guerrero

#3. Anywhere in the world you go, you find racism, discrimination. Not just in the United States, or in Texas. It's very sad for me, but that's the way it is. I can't change the world by myself. I, being Hispanic, have also faced discrimination. But ... the world keeps turning.

Selena

#4. Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.

Denis Leary

#5. When you're young your opponent is the future; but when you're not young, your opponent's the past and everything you've done in it and the problem of getting away from it.

Richard Ford

#6. If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

Georges Bataille

#8. I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.

Kat Graham

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

Raquel Cepeda

#10. TITANIA My Oberon! what visions have I seen! Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.

William Shakespeare

#11. I don't get dressed up every day. I'm very busy. I get really annoyed when people talk about me as a 'fashionista.' I get dressed up when I have to go out. Most of the time, I'm running around in jeans.

Iris Apfel

#12. My Latin roots are very strong. All my life, because I'm blonde and blue-eyed, people who aren't Hispanic can't believe I am. And people who are Hispanic always think I'm not, because I don't look like them. Being Latin is part of who I am and I bring that part to every role.

Cameron Diaz

#13. After so long being thin, it was terrifying being heavier. But I am a naturally curvy Hispanic girl. I don't deprive myself.

Demi Lovato

#14. The stress of everything seemed to be making Newt fall fast. And they'd left him all alone outside the city. "You could very well save him," Janson said quietly.

James Dashner

#15. What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.

Jennifer Beals

#16. Just now they kissed, with India coming up close on her toes to see if she could tell yet what there was about a kiss.

Eudora Welty

#17. In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

Irwin Shaw

#18. my most desperate moments, I have never conceived of anything more horrible than a law office." -Marcel Proust

Petula Parker

#19. I spent a long time away from my parents when I was younger. I would go hunting and fishing with my uncle, and we would go for weeks at a time. I also spent a lot of time in Texas with my grandparents.

RJ Mitte

#20. I grew up in a highly Hispanic neighborhood. It was very rare to find any race other than Mexicans. I feel very comfortable around Spanish speakers and people from Mexico and people who don't always feel comfortable living in the U.S. because they are in fear of being deported.

Emily Rios

#21. As far as being a deliveryman is concerned, I see nothing wrong with being a delivery man. You know, black or white or Hispanic or Chinese or whatever, you know? It's a job.

Meshach Taylor

#22. I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'

Naya Rivera