Quotes About Diversity

When you talk about me as a fighter, I like being known as a Mexican fighter. I think 'Mexican' or 'Hispanic' should be mentioned.

I grew up in a predominantly Asian and Mexican community, and because I did breakdance and poplock and all that, I did get a lot of criticism: 'You're Mexican, why are you doing that?'

I feel great being the first Mexican heavyweight UFC champion.

I'm an average American. As I joke, I'm the average Mexican American Jewish Italian mayor of the most diverse city in the world.

Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.

I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic thing is that all three of those categories often exist inside of the same family.

It's really tough to be a Mexican on 'Breaking Bad.'

I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.

I'm not Mexican, and I'm not Central American. I'm from California.

California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.

On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.

People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.

When I first came out to L.A., Hollywood's idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.

I cook all the time, and I cook all different kinds of things, but never Mexican at home. That's my work.

I love Ozomatli, this L.A. band that makes great coffee. They are half American, half Mexican, their coffee's great, and they're very good friends.

I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.

I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.

If we continue to dump more Mexican immigrants on the country, we'll get to the point that we'll never have another Republican president.

I'm a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn't really see myself in that. Not that I didn't grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I don't know - I just never put myself there.

I grew up Mexican.

Everyone who thinks I'm not Mexican simply because I was born in the United States is wrong.

I could always talk about being a Latino and having a Mexican mom and a Honduran dad and being from Honduras. That was always an easy go-to place. But on the other hand, it was a crutch.

It doesn't really matter what ethnicity you are, but I love that I'm bringing light to not only my Mexican side but also my Italian side.

There are so many wonderful Mexican cheeses that people really don't consider when making Mexican food, or food in general.