Top 50 Latina Quotes

No Latina woman would be called ‘Ms.’ – that’s an invention of middle-class Anglo women. Latina women are proud to be called ‘Mrs.’ That simply means that we have a family.

The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.

It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.

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.

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

I would like to do more millennial, Latina, complicated stories.

I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn’t necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.

I’d like to see a world where there are so many Latina women leaders – and women of all different backgrounds – in the top jobs around the country. When that happens, we’ve succeeded.

On the night of June 30, 1990, a minibus in which I was travelling was involved in a head-on collision on a road near Latina, in the region of Lazio, near Rome.

There are plenty of Latina actresses that no one’s ever heard of… Some are really brown, some are light-skinned, and some look like they’re Caucasian, but it’s like we only want to identify with a certain kind of look and celebrate that under the guise that this is a ‘Latina actress.’

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It’s what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

The only difference between the Bel Air of the ’90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.

The women I love most are Latina – my sister, mother, and daughter. They’re spontaneous but spend a majority of their time trying to make others happy.

I love being Latina. I love our values, the way we’re so in touch with others, our dark humor, how fun we are, how relaxed we are. I love how hard working, independent, and ambitious we are.

I don’t understand labels. I don’t need anybody to tell me I’m Latina or black or anything else. I’ve played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.

I grew up in L.A. in a school that was diverse, but it was not really integrated, so I didn’t ever fully fit in with the black girls or the white girls or the Latina girls.

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina… means a lot to me.

I know Becky G, Natti Natasha, and other Latina singers, we have been working many, many years and now we have the opportunity to show what we have, to show what we have been doing for many years. Great things are happening for women in the Latin music industry.

The thing is to convince people that a part not written for a Latina woman – or maybe not even written for a woman at all – is a female part. You convince them you can do it.

You don’t grow up in a Latina household where everyone is curvy thinking that you can be a model. That’s just not normal.

I do know that when I started, there weren’t very many Latina plus-size models. For a long time, with my look and my body type, I felt like there wasn’t a place for me.

I was always typecast as a Latina.

Yes, I’m a proud Latina woman, but before that – before the color of my skin, my accent, anything – I’m an actress, singer and dancer. I’m something bigger than just my background.

Many artists in Mexico fight to be the Latina Madonna. I don’t want that! Never! Maybe she’s the American Gloria Trevi!

I’m black. I’m Latina. My mom is Cuban. Afro-Cuban. My dad is white and Australian.

Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal.

Imagine a judicial nominee said ‘my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.’ Wouldn’t they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

I’m a Latina. Everything is outspoken in my culture.

‘Wonder Woman’ was on TV when I was growing up, and I knew Lynda Carter was part Latina. It gave me a great sense of pride.

I’m really Americanized. The only real Latina thing I do is cook rice and beans with chuletas and tostones. I do the healthier version of what my grandmother would have made: a lot less salt, a lot less fat, a lot more vegetables. Sometimes I serve it with brown rice, which is, like, sacrilegious.

I never understood why anyone cared about the Kardashians until a friend, who’s Latina, told me that she liked them because they’re a family who look like hers. I was able to appreciate them differently.

We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. And as the President likes to say, ‘Every single one of them wasn’t just the best Latino for the job, but the best person for the job.’

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.

I never thought of myself as a woman leader or Latina leader; I just thought of myself as a leader.

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.

My creativity for making women feel beautiful is one of the reasons I love being Latina. Just making people feel more attractive was always a goal of mine; the creativity – I think it has a lot to do with my culture as well.

Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

As soon as you start looking into roles which are specifically Asian, Black, or Latina, you start looking at stereotypes. That’s the issue minority actors face – it’s not that we don’t want to play our ethnicities; it’s that, often, the role that’s written for our ethnicity is a stereotype.

They say Latina women are spicy. But we are more than that. We have power, and we run things.

My sons are black, and my daughter is Latina.

Growing up, I didn’t think it would be possible to be an actress – I didn’t see a lot of Latina faces on TV or in movies. But that didn’t stop me from trying. I realized early that anything I really wanted was worth working for.

I grew up on the West Coast during the ’80s. But I wasn’t a ‘valley girl,’ since I grew up in Norwalk, which was filled with Latina girls.

Sotomayor’s vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as ‘a wise Latina’ trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment – a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

I’ve been blessed because every single role I’ve done has been an educated person. I’ve never done the stereotypical Latina, even though I have an accent – I’ve always been able to play educated people. That’s a good thing!

I’m so proud to be a Latina. Growing up and being Latina and growing up with my father and getting to do a lot of the Hispanic traditions, I loved it.

I’m a Latina from Miami. I pity you if you think you’re going out-shout me.

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I’m born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don’t speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker.

I was thrilled to play a role on ‘Dora the Explorer,’ a show that has touched the lives of many children around the world, including my own child. Dora is such an iconic and important Latina heroine, and I’m proud to now be a part of the show’s ever-growing legacy.

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

I have to represent. I feel proud to have a culture that’s different… and proud to be a Latina. We’re not all categorized as one type of person… there’s people from everywhere doing different things who have different types of cultures. Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.