Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.
I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.
Latin Americans glorify their past so ceaselessly that they make it almost impossible to advocate change.
The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.
I can't say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I've encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about five fruitless years of auditioning for voiceovers where I did variations on tacos and Latin accents, and my first screen role was as a bellhop on 'The Sopranos.'
There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
My sister, she's amazing. She sort of inspired me to take this journey to Latin America.
Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.
Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
Latin women are very comfortable with their bodies and their sexuality. We aren't afraid to show that off a little bit more.
They've got so many Latin players we're going to have to get a Latin instructor up here.
Long live the Unity of Latin America.
So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.
People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.
English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.
Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.
In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.
I really wanna do a Spanish album. I have that Latin culture background. It's a part of me. I'm not the best Spanish speaker, but I have a longing to connect with that. I just think how supportive the Latin community has been, even during 'Idol.' I'd like to give back with something like that.
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval 'Carmina Burana' - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.
I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek.
One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of the community. My love of Spanish music hasn't wavered since the '50s. I could hear the blues voicing from the Flamanco families and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music.
We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.
There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves.
I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd never done any Latin dance. I'd taken jazz classes and ballet growing up in New York, so I had dance in me, and I knew I loved it, but I'd never done a dance audition.
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds.
Mexico is becoming the northern part of Latin America, not the U.S.A.'s southern outpost.
Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant.
I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but I am an American citizen and my books are published here, so I'm also an American writer.
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.
Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.
We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy.
