Quotes About Culture

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 love the Mexican chapulines. These little crickets are beautifully roasted with salt and lime.

I grew up Mexican.

I've got that Mexican blood in me.

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

I'm an authentic Mexican.

I feel comfortable with the Mexican people. I feel accepted by them and if I knock Morales out, like I know I can, it is my hope that the Mexican fans will adopt me as their own.

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.

You always try to fight someone from another country. But having said that, the public knows, everybody knows, when there's two Mexicans in the ring, there will be a war.

I love all Mexicans.

I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.

Mexicans are quasi-legal.

Growing, up I didn't really have anyone to look up to. There weren't a lot of Mexicans on T.V. except for those in boxing.

For Mexicans, corruption is not a deal breaker.

My bajo sexto, a big Mexican acoustic guitar, comes from a shop in L.A. run by three generations of Mexicans.

Just because my name is Carlos Mencia, don't think my show is going to be about the difference between Mexicans and white people.

Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.

In Mexico, you're close to death all the time.

If I could not be in this free and wonderful country - I wouldn't want to be anywhere else, mind you - Mexico is where I would live. I love Mexico, and I love the Mexican people.

Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?

I wanted the music to sound, like, made in Mexico. I wanted to connect to my roots.

Some Mexicans go to Hollywood and lose career in Mexico because they play imitation. I don't want this to happen to me.