#latino

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#freedom-of-thought #hispanic #identity #immigrant-experience #latino-americans

Even the most political poem is an act of faith. ↗

— Martin Espada

#poetry #faith

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#hispanic-american #identity #latina #latina-american #latino-american

A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#anymore #arrived #couple #everything #fashionable

You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#black #different #different things #fact #hip

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#camps #come #concentration #go #latino

After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#asian #berry #black #couple #does

And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#latino #like #music #reggae #some

Anytime you do something Latino, yeah, I love the color, the spice. ↗

— Esai Morales

#color #i #i love #latino #love

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#because #definitely #embracing #exist #grown