#latino

Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the speakers around you - and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers. If your mother tells you stories, she is a poetry maker. If your father says stories, he is a poetry maker. If your grandma tells you stories, she is a poetry maker. And that’s who forms our poetics. ↗

— Juan Felipe Herrera

#poetry #communication

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

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

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

— Martin Espada

#poetry #faith