Octavio Paz Quotes

The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

Octavio Paz

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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

Salma Hayek
- Up
- Music
- Love
I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.

Patricia Riggen
- Think
- Three
- Mexican
A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

Canelo Alvarez
- People
- Country
- American
The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

Gary Clark Jr.
- Band
- Guys
- Instruments
I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

J. M. G. Le Clezio
- Culture
- Me
- English
I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.

Aaron Sanchez
- Food
- Understand
- Mexican