Being Latina Quotes & Sayings

Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman. — Natalie Martinez

I have so many friends I couldn't even count them on one hand - not even if I had six fingers. Now, if I had seven fingers, I could count on them, but I still wouldn't be able to count on my friends. — Jarod Kintz

Aside from being a Latina, my family immigrated from Puerto Rico and Yugoslavia so I know all about that. I wouldn't be able to do what I do today if they didn't come to America. Everybody has an immigration story. — Naya Rivera

When people see a Spanish last name, they have an image in their head of what the typical Latina looks like. I think it's important on television to have different representations of people. And I'm so proud of being Latina. I love it. — Kether Donohue

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught. — Erin Gruwell

I definitely have some stereotypical qualities of being a Latina. I talk with my hands, which means I knock stuff over all the time. — Bitsie Tulloch

Out of this incredible brutality, we get the myth of the happy darky and Gone With the Wind. And the North Americans appear to believe these legends, which they have created and which absolutely nothing in reality corroborates, until today. And when these legends are attacked, as is happening now - all over a globe which has never been and never will be White - my countrymen become childishly vindictive and unutterably dangerous. The — James Baldwin

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

I want nothing. I just want the emptiness to mean something. — Ernest Hemingway,

The status quo feels comfortable and steady because much of the choice has been squeezed out. You have your routines, your ways of doing things. — Chip Heath

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

I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away. — Tahereh Mafi

Your hard journey has had a great purpose! — Bryant McGill

Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about. — Raquel Cepeda

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me. — Oprah Winfrey

YOU'RE FACING THE WRONG WAY YOU SU - - " BOOM. — Cube Kid

So you don't think I'm crazy because I see patterns all around me?" Airiana asked, drawing her knees up to rest her chin on top of them.
"No, I think you're perfectly sane," Blythe said. "A little mixed up, but that's to be expected given what you've been through."
"Let's not go that far," Lissa teased. "She's got it in her head that we're all going to find ourselves with a Prakenskii man in our laps."
Lexi nearly spewed her tea across the room. "Don't say that. Good grief, Lissa. This is Sea Haven. You can't put something like that out into the universe and not expect repercussions."
"It wasn't me," Lissa denied, holding up both hands. "Airiana said it first, and I told her the exact same thing."

-Airiana, Blythe, Lissa, & Lexi — Christine Feehan

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet. — Anne Frank

I am so proud of my heritage and of being Latina. I would most definitely consider roles in Latin America. — Chrissie Fit

Being Latina, I'm super close with my family. I love them, and I love spending time with them. I love being at my grandma's house and eating her food. — Emeraude Toubia

The rats had crept out of their holes to look on, and they remained looking on for hours; soldiers and police often passing between them and the spectacle, and making a barrier behind which they slunk, and through which they peeped. The father had long ago taken up his bundle and hidden himself away with it, when the women who had tended the bundle while it lay on the base of the fountain, sat there watching the running of the water and the rolling of the Fancy Ball - when the one woman who had stood conspicuous, knitting, still knitted on with the steadfastness of Fate. The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life ran in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, all things ran their course — Charles Dickens

Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them. — Joey Lauren Adams

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

The mystery school continued throughout the greater Egyptian civilization, which was the second age of humankind and later on into the third age of humankind when the Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan high cultures flourished — Frederick Lenz