Quotes About Chicanos

#1. Chicanos and running water are endlessly fascinating. I can watch them all day.

Cheech Marin

#2. You've got to invite Native Americans to the table, and Asians, and Chicanos. You cannot keep us in the back room anymore and give us notations on paper saying this is what you deserve. You have to invite us to the table because America is ours, too.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. There are some Chicanos who don't want to be Chicanos - they want to be Mexican-American, Hispanic, or even Spanish.

Cheech Marin

#6. When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!

Avijeet Das

#7. The pioneering anthropologist Louis Leakey once stated, Without an understanding of who we are, we cannot truly advance.

Gregg Braden

#8. You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

Lou Reed

#9. How can I demonstrate [ ... ] that I have glimpsed somebody's future recollection?

Vladimir Nabokov

#10. When there is hope, there is life.

Estelle

#11. Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all.

Neil Gaiman

#12. People often say women want to be loved. But they really want much more. Many women want to bear children; and their very being wants to give children life. She often desires men just as a key to the child that is in her to give life to.

Kahlil Gibran

#13. As friends they knew each other's history, knew the twists and turns that had brought them to this place in the world. And they understood each other's fears and frailties; nothing had to be explained. Now,

Jacqueline Winspear

#14. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination.

Paul Auster

#15. When one's work hides behind simple, process is kind of long story.

Shawn Lukas

#16. You need to be careful of people who tell you that adventure exists at the next turn--because it turns out that they are not really walking into a story, but running away from a history that chases them throughout time.

Christopher Herz

#17. Hugs may come less frequently from someone with autism but when they do, you know it means everything.

Stuart Duncan