Top 30 Deep, Inspirational Quotes About "Latina" (2022)

"Being Latina to me is living your life like it's a big old fiesta!"

#Bigs #Latina #Live Your Life

"I don't think I have rebelled against Latina culture. I have rebelled against those who try to make me warm tortillas for my brothers when they can warm them for themselves, I have rebelled against a patriarchal religion. I rebel against small mindedness in all ways and in every situation but those things are not an intrinsic part of Latina culture and I will fight tooth and nail against anyone who tries to make me feel like I'm less Xicana for not embracing the small-mindedness."

--- Alice Bag

#Thinking #Feels #Way

"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

#Thinking #Plates #Sides

"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

#Misinterpretation #Knows #Doe

"I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I’m born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don’t speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker"

--- America Ferrera

#Speak #Born #Enough

"When I hear that Jennifer Lopez is such a role model for Latinas, on the one hand I respect her for her business sense and I respect her for her ambition. But she's in the entertainment world. She's done it on her looks and very specifically on her anatomy. Madonna is also considered a great businesswoman and so is Yoko Ono. I feel if I had a young daughter right now, I would feel a little discouraged if that was my daughter's primary role model for success and for young people, for Latinas and Latinos."

--- Ana Castillo

#People #Done #Daughter

"Being Latina in the US is something I'm learning about everyday. I don't feel inherently different in any way from anybody else and it is a feeling I cherish and that has helped me avoid thinking of my ethnicity as a potential obstacle from what I want to achieve."

--- Andrea Suarez Paz

#Want #Thinking #Feels

"People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood."

--- Zoe Saldana

#People #Thinking #Blood

"I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening."

--- Zoe Saldana

#Want #Has Beens #Needs

"To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me."

--- Zoe Saldana

#Mean #Latina

"As for major obstacles keeping young Latinos from becoming filmmakers, I think our communities are still coming into their identities as storytellers. It's such an important identity to reclaim - it's how our ancestors kept our cultures alive. But a long history of silencing, invisibility, and marginalization has kept generations of Latinos from believing in themselves, from seeing themselves as agents of their own lives. I think there needs to be a focus on this aspect to help cultivate young Latinas to see themselves as cultural producers and defenders."

--- Aurora Guerrero

#Obstacles #Latino #Storyteller

"The women I love most are Latina - my sister, mother, and daughter. They're spontaneous but spend a majority of their time trying to make others happy."

--- William Levy

#Mother #My Sister #Daughter

"My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am."

--- Bella Thorne

#People #Knows #Firsts

"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 #World #Doe

"Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism."

--- Camille Paglia

#Males #Men #White

"We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. And as the President likes to say, 'Every single one of them wasn't just the best Latino for the job, but the best person for the job.'"

--- Charlie Gonzalez

#Firsts #Made #Jobs

"My mother would always say that we had to look very presumida, and I took that to heart. Latinas take a lot of pride in looking their best and that might mean putting a little mascara on."

--- Chrissie Fit

#Mother #Heart #Mean

"Because I also write, I really admire Latinas who are creating content. That's the next step. We can talk about seeing more Latinas on TV all day long, but it's about what we can do to make that happen. Women like Eva Longoria, Sofía Vergara, Jennifer Lopez, and Salma Hayek are producing a lot of great shows that feature Latinas. Those are the women who inspire me because they're not just acting; they're creating for the future."

--- Chrissie Fit

#Can Do #Writing #Tvs

"I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic pocketbooks on their laps, their knees apart, their skirts touching the ground... and cuentistas, old Latina women who stand, robust of breast, hips wide, and cry out the story ranchera style. Both clans storytell in the plain voice of women who have lived blood and babies, bread and bones. For them, story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community."

--- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#Lap #Skirts #Latina

"Latina women are proud to be called Mrs. That simply means that we have a family."

--- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#Mean #Proud #Latina

"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

#Tvs #Wonder #Pride

"It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture."

--- Cristela Alonzo

#Giving #Littles #Sound

"Like most Latinas, I'm not afraid to speak my mind."

--- Cristina Saralegui

#Mind #Speak #Latina

"Sonia Sotomayor is uniquely and exquisitely sensitive to race issues because she is a Latina."

--- Dahlia Lithwick

#Sensitive #Race #Issues

"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."

--- Sonia Sotomayor

#Males #White #Wise

"The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever."

--- Sonia Sotomayor

#Forever #Heritage #Latina

"My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage."

--- Sonia Sotomayor

#Knows #Accepting #Areas

"If a Latina falls in love with someone who is insecure, it can be a nightmare."

--- Sofia Vergara

#Ifs #Fall #Falling In Love

"Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the civil rights movement and immigration. These stories, rendered through the words and eyes of a young Latina girl who came from Argentina to Marion, Alabama, are made vivid and immediate through Weaver's highly accessible drawings and dialogue. This is a book-about maturation, family, education, and social change-every schoolchild, parent, and citizen should experience."

--- Sena Jeter Naslund

#Remarkable #Vivid #Black And White

"That one time I had ma Latina texture going on.. Or just.. everyday."

--- Selena

#Everyday #Texture #One Time

Deep, Inspirational Quotes about "Latina"