Quotes from Luis Valdez

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

Only this reality is real now, only this place is real, sitting in the lonely cell of your will...

Each second is a raw drop of blood from your brain that you must swallow drop by drop and don't even start counting or you'll lose your mind...

IN LAK'ECH Tú eres mi otro yo. You are my other me. Si te hago daño a ti, If I do harm to you, Me hago daño a mi mismo. I do harm to myself. Si te amo y respeto, If I love and respect you, Me amo y respeto yo. I love and respect myself.

It always hurts the gringo more to lose his money than his life.

If you're not white, you have to be brilliant, just to be considered acceptable.