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Quotes About Mexican-American

Marco Rubio is interesting because he checks so many boxes when you think about what a Republican nominee needs. He brings Florida, he's young, he's Hispanic, the Tea Party likes him. But that said, he's got issues, actually surprisingly, ironically, with Mexican-American voters.
~ Mark McKinnon
Spanglish is very natural. It's however it comes out. But there are a few patterns that all of us, especially Mexican-American writers, just noticed in how we utilized Spanglish. It comes out of necessity when you can't find the next word. You go to whatever language will serve you best.
~ Tanya Saracho
I remember 'Resurrection Boulevard.' It was on for such a brief moment, but they were trying to do a good, Latino, Mexican-American family with a patriarch.
~ Tanya Saracho
In the early 1900s, while colonization continued, the original Mexican population of the Southwest was greatly increased by an immigration the continues today. This combination of centuries-old roots and relatively new ones gives the Mexican-American people a rich and varied cultural heritage.
~ Elizabeth Martínez
To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.
~ Cheech Marin
You live in El Paso, you're a pocho, an Americanized Mexican, and no one can tell Pablo that it doesn't change you. You shop in malls instead of mercados, you watch football instead of fútbol, you become another consumer in a giant machine that consumes consumers.
~ Don Winslow
And it's a big honor to be fighting for the title and to put a Mexican-American on top of the heavyweight division. I can give a lot of people some kind of inspiration by winning this title.
~ Chris Arreola
A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
~ Canelo Alvarez
It was a mission of celebration: never had two Mexican-Americans flown up in space on the same mission, and never did burritos shine so brightly.
~ Gustavo Arellano
We Mexican-Americans in Orange County created wab to describe our wabby brothers and sisters, and all you Central Valley wabs could come up with to insult your unassimilated paisanos is chunti?! Chunti is shorthand for chúntaro, what Mexicans in Mexico call the poorer, rural Mexicans—
~ Gustavo Arellano
Chicano: The poorer, stupider, more assimilated cousins of Mexicans. Otherwise known as a Mexican-American. George López is such a Chicano with his unfunny jokes.
~ Gustavo Arellano
When a family is involved in a human rights movement, as in the Mexican- American family, there is little room for a woman's liberation movement alone
~ Unknown