Latino Books Quotes & Sayings

You Can't Be A Hero To The World, If Your Aren't First A Hero In Your Home! — Latif Mercado

Attitude Is More Important Than Talent — Latif Mercado

I'm alone even in a crowded room of people. I'm alone every time I laugh because you're not there with me. It's an empty dream when the other half of me is somewhere else. — S.D. Hendrickson

There's tonnes of room for more people in the tech market, and there are lots of content gaps that have still not yet been tapped into. — Jon Oringer

The rage inside Charlotte crested to a peak. "I'm angry because Papa and Aunt Branwell never would have sent you here," she shouted. "Not to a charity school. Not the precious boy."
"I know that," Branwell said, his voice ragged. "I've always known that. Don't you think that might be hard to live with? — Lena Coakley

Looking ahead to future applications of electronics, [de Forest] grew even gloomier. He believed that 'electron physiologists' would eventually be able to monitor and analyze 'thought or brain waves', allowing 'joy and grief to be measured in define, quantitative unit.' Ultimately, he concluded, 'a professor may be able to implant knowledge into the reluctant brains of his 22nd century pupils. What terrifying political possibilities may be lurking there! Let us be thankful that such things are only for posterity, not for us. — Nicholas Carr

It's amazing to completely focus on something for four, five or six months, have it completely consume your life and be constantly thinking about somebody else's set of circumstances and how they would react to something. I find it fascinating. It's rewarding and on a professional and personal level. — Leonardo DiCaprio

The profession is never going back to those days when a handful of wealthy people treated publishing like a hobby: one where the business can lose money because the family has lots of it to burn. Frankly, I don't think that model was ever sustainable, and it really only enriched a small number of writers. — Victor LaValle

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness. — William Hazlitt

Never Let The Roosters Wake You! — Latif Mercado

You Can't Change Your Life... Until You Change Your Heart, and You Can't Change Your Heart... Until You Change Your Mind! — Latif Mercado

Who is as free as a writer? Nadie es tan libre como un escritor . . . No one is as free as a writer! — Sofia Espinoza Alvarez

The truth is, I can't read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better. — Marc Maron

You never know what's around the next corner... So keep walking! — Latif Mercado

It was like skydiving but way more intense. Like if you took two Ambien and then went skydiving and forced yourself to stay awake the entire time. — Babe Walker

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone. — Louis D. Brandeis

The Best Deal Is The One Where Everyone Walks Away Happy! — Latif Mercado

That is why whenever we make assumptions, we're asking for problems. We make an assumption, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing. — Miguel Ruiz

A Decision That Can Change Your Life Forever, Can Happen In Just One Second. — Latif Mercado

The Only Person I'm Prejudice Against, is The Lazy One! — Latif Mercado

There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world. — Sandra Cisneros

You Don't Have To Be A Crook To Be Successful! — Latif Mercado

Our relationship with nature is more one of being than having. We are nature: we do not have nature. — Stephen Harper

It's Easy To Feel Like A Big Fish, When Your Pond is Just A Puddle! — Latif Mercado

I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be. — Carol Rifka Brunt

To Me, The Best Part Of Success, Is The Journey! — Latif Mercado

Failures Are The Cornerstones Of Success! — Latif Mercado

I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the objects in his novels. I have a view of the entrance to the Bosporus, the old city, Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque. — Orhan Pamuk

Whether white, black, Asian, or Latino, American students rarely arrive at college as habitual readers, which means that few of them have more than a nominal connection to the past. It is absurd to speak, as does the academic left, of classic Western texts dominating and silencing everyone but a ruling elite or white males. The vast majority of white students do not know the intellectual tradition that is allegedly theirs any better than black or brown ones do. They have not read its books, and when they do read them, they may respond well, but they will not respond in the way that the academic left supposes. For there is only one 'hegemonic discourse' in the lives of American undergraduates, and that is the mass media. Most high schools can't begin to compete against a torrent of imagery and sound that makes every moment but the present seem quaint, bloodless, or dead. — David Denby

All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on gang violence, I was a community organizer in Newark, New Jersey, and when I spoke to the Black Caucus, congressional and state, I realized they were going all the way for Hillary [Clinton] and so was the Latino caucus in Sacramento and I asked myself this question: "Do I really want to cast my vote against these people who have been central to my life and to the soul of the country?" And so I went with them. Period. — Tom Hayden

Don't Rush Up The Stairs, you Just Might Fall. Take it One Step At A Time! — Latif Mercado

Thank God For Writing, As Now I Can Work Until My Last Breath! — Latif Mercado