Latina Quotes

• My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. "How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions?" I asked her. "That's why we take siestas," she replied.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Cutting
  • Emotion
  • Awful

• Being Latina means I have culture I guess. We party together, cry together, and cook together. Or at least my family does as much as we can. We know where we're from and we have a certain kind of rhythm and understanding. Togetherness. As I get older it becomes more apparent that there is a community in this industry that is working together to rise up and fight against the misinterpretation of Hispanic and what it means to be a Latino-American nowadays.

  

  Alicia Sixtos
  • Culture
  • Fight
  • My Family

• Wonder Woman was on TV when I was growing up, and I knew Lynda Carter was part Latina. It gave me a great sense of pride.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• I can say I’m Latina — even if I had an Afro, didn’t have an Afro — I mean I’m still Afro-Latina because I’m from African descent. So that’s what it is.

  

  Amara La Negra
  • Descent
  • Latina
  • Afro

• 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
  • Writing
  • Giving
  • Distinctive

• I get a lot of credit for having succeeded as a Latina in this world, and I am not that. I appreciate it, but I'm Italian. And that does happen a lot.

  

  Cameron Esposito
  • Italian
  • Get
  • Credit

• When I think of my Latina side, I imagine family barbecues with carne asada, rice, beans, tortillas and a jalapeno on my plate along with 'Vicente Fernandez' blaring out the speakers. Spicy food. Salsa. Tamales. Family.

  

  Alicia Sixtos
  • Family
  • Food
  • Speakers

• I'm an actress, and I am Latina.

  

  Rita Moreno
  • Actresses
  • 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
  • Father
  • Community
  • Brother

• 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
  • Change
  • Sometimes
  • Experiment

• I wrote a pilot for myself. It's about a Latina actress trying to make it in Hollywood. It's pretty funny.

  

  Melonie Diaz
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• 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
  • Audience
  • Term
  • Mexican

• I'm Latina. I was born with high heels. We crossed border in high heels. We were running from immigration...I can do aerobics in heels.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Born
  • Immigration
  • Aerobics

• Don't be afraid to say what you don't know, and speak for what you do know. Say, "I can't speak for all Latinas, but I can speak for me and tell you very, very honestly."

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Speak
  • Honestly
  • Latina