Quotes & Sayings About Puerto Rican Pride

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me. — Steven Rodney McQueen

I was a little late in the game for Twitter and Facebook and everything because I thought, 'Oh, I don't know. I just don't have time.' — Stacy Keibler

We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of our customs and our history and our traditions and who we are. — Juan Luis Guerra

I sat down on a couch and closed my eyes and pictured myself. I couldn't see anything clearly. Wonderful! That's how it should be!
I am a blurry image constantly trying to come into focus, and just when, for an instant, I have myself in perfectly clarity, I appear as a figure in my own background, fuzzy as hair on a peach — Steve Toltz

What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you. — Rumi

It is a special privilege and calling to live in two millenniums. — Sunday Adelaja

Everyone knows that books are better than life! That's why they're books! — Shainee Gabel

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. — Francois Fenelon

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on. — Hubert H. Humphrey

I don't understand this notion of ethnic pride. "Proud to be Irish," "Puerto Rican pride," "Black pride." It seems to me that pride should be reserved for accomplishments; things you attain or achieve, not things that happen to you by chance. Being Irish isn't a skill; it's genetic. You wouldn't say, "I'm proud to have brown hair," or "I'm proud to be short and stocky." So why the fuck should you say you're proud to be Irish? I'm Irish, but I'm not particularly proud of it. Just glad! Goddamn glad to be Irish! — George Carlin

[From Old Mortality]
The woman in the picture ... was only a ghost in a frame, and a sad, pretty story from old times. — Katherine Anne Porter