I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band – it’s like riding a bike.
My label is to play bad guys of Latin origin in American movies. I’m happy with that label. I prefer to play that than to play a city boy. The bad guy is always something very tempting for the audience.
International consumers can rest assured that their quinoa purchases have benefited some of Latin America’s poorest people, together with their families.
We want to engage in ever closer synergy with Latin American and Caribbean partners.
I’m half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house – so that’s like a very Latin staple. It’s just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can’t wait for my rice and beans and chicken.
When you are not in agreement with someone, we Latin people are loud when we argue.
I’m the kid that tried to take Latin in school because I felt if I could understand the root of everything, then I could understand why it worked. That was what took me into engineering. And the reason I stayed is, engineering teaches you to solve problems. It teaches you to think.
In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don’t believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.
My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, ‘to bind.’ To bind with rope. And that’s all it means. So whenever I hear somebody go, ‘I feel so religious right now!’ I’m like, ‘Well, you’re tying yourself up in knots, are you?’
I speak Swedish, it’s my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home.
Playing in New York is special to me because you are surrounded by so many communities and a strong Latin community, including the Washington Heights neighborhood. I come to Washington Heights for real Dominican food that reminds me of my hometown, and it’s a great place to visit.
I want all Hispanics in the Republican Party, in the Democratic Party, whether Latin Americans, Central Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, I want us to unite.
Latin men are the most passionate men in the world – they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.
My intent is never to leave Latin music. I definitely still want to release bachata albums.
As a youngster, my parents made me aware that all that was from the African Diaspora belonged to me. So I came in with Caribbean music, African music, Latin music, gospel music and blues.
I’m proud of my Latin American heritage.
Guajira, colombiana, milonga, rumba – all these styles are flamenco. They’re part of the musical tradition in my country, and they are in Latin America too.
From country rock to Cajun, classic rock to Latin, and blues to Americana, I’ve had the pleasure of re-discovering the ‘jewels’ from my repertoire that are so well-liked.
Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress.
I did whole Latin albums and it was like Beatlemania for me in the Latin world, the screaming girls, not being able to leave the hotel, at the airport met by screaming fans. That was something!
I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.
We tried to make music that had a very diverse collection of genres – jazz, pop, Latin, even the blues. We tried to have a gumbo soup of expressions. We wanted to create music that would have people dive into a pool of artistic beauty and feel good. And I think we have been really blessed.
No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.
When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April.
As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it’s given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn’t come in ’47, me and Ron Santo wouldn’t have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.
I feel American comedy is a little too light. World cinema, and Latin cinema, is much more comfortable with darker emotions.
I like the word monument, because the word monument is a Latin word.
I’d love to do some period pieces and some historic work; I just feel like no one’s tapped into Latin history and Latin contributions to the making of America, and we’ve been there over 500 years.
You can’t ignore the obvious. Women after a certain age are believed to be good for nothing in the entertainment field, especially in the Latin world.
The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.
Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean share a cultural heritage based on centuries of common history. And what is more, we share the same values and world view. We believe in a world order that is based on cooperation, on regionalism, on multilateralism.
If you’re equally good as this Latin player, guess who’s going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.
I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I’m a radio kid.
I don’t call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.
The fact that we are playing Latinos does not mean that you have to be shouting ‘fiesta,’ ‘taco,’ or talking in the same way most Latin characters do in American television.
My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
Obviously the music I listened to growing up helped create my musical pallet. My parents were into pop, soul, disco, RNB, Latin, jazz and Middle Eastern music.
I like to dance to Latin music, like salsa, like reggaeton.
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
France is a fantastic country. It’s between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.
The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.
I didn’t go to Latin America thinking, ‘I’m gonna write a book. This is what I’m gonna do.’ I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.
The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.
I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever – I was a very quiet kid at school – just hated me.
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
As far as a Latin explosion, I’m sorry, I’m the only Latino who’s going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I’m sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it’s disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.
Novelas are very respected in the Latin world.
I was born with a beard. We’re quite hairy down in Latin America. We don’t have to use sponges when we wash dishes. We just use our baby beards.
The Roman goddess Diana, you know, is usually shown with a bow and arrow. Every first-year Latin student knows that. I still remember the first simple sentence I learned in Latin ‘Diana sagittas por tas… Diana carries the arrows.’ That helped get me interested in archery as a teenager and I’m still into it a lot.
Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn’t familiar with African coffee.
I feel like flamenco is part of this Latin music culture. It’s from Spain, but flamenco has always been connected to Latinoamerica.
My hope is that ‘The New World Haggadah’ will open a new world for readers who will see our heritage through a multilingual prism. I wanted to feature medieval and renaissance authors, resistance in World War II, crypto-Jews and activists during the Dirty War in Latin America, songs of protest, and songs of hope.
Latin is an international language.
Jazz flute’s funny. And I’m a big Latin music fan, Tito Puente, Tina Cruz, all that stuff.
To represent the Latin American people – especially Latin American women… there’s not many of us fighting. To be one of the ones that are able to set a precedent and to fight in Mexico is really amazing.
Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
