These Hispanic quotes will inspire you. Hispanic, of, relating to, or being a person of Latin American descent and especially of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin living in the U.S. or relating to Spain or to Spanish-speaking countries, especially those of Latin America.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Hispanic quotes, Hispanic sayings, and Hispanic proverbs.
Best Hispanic Quotes
- “My Latin roots are very strong. All my life, because I’m blonde and blue-eyed, people who aren’t Hispanic can’t believe I am. And people who are Hispanic always think I’m not, because I don’t look like them. Being Latin is part of who I am and I bring that part to every role.” ~ Cameron Diaz
- “Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?” ~ Ted Cruz
- “For as long as the power of America’s diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.” ~ Ron Kind
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“If the Republican Party works with the Hispanic community, the immigrant community, they’re natural allies. People who came to this country are more freedom-loving and more American than people who just happened to be born here.” ~ Grover Norquist
- “A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.” ~ John Shadegg
- “The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.” ~ Sonia Sotomayor
- “Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.” ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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“My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don’t forget where you came from.” ~ Eva Longoria
- “I think Hispanic women are beautiful with their curves. I’m not sure who feels that way in Hollywood. I was never told to lose 50 pounds. If they think that they just don’t bother with you. You just don’t get the role and you never know why. That’s still better than physically harming yourself and becoming unhealthy just to star in a movie.” ~ America Ferrera
- “Look, I think Hispanic community – the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.” ~ Ted Cruz
- “No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.” ~ Marco Rubio
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“I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with … the world around them.” ~ Gloria Estefan
- “I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.” ~ George Zimmerman
- “**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!” ~ David Farragut
- “One of the things that really worries me, in part about Mexico, in part about Latin America, and in part about the Hispanic population in the U.S. and Canada. It’s the lack of awareness of this whole science world.” ~ Juan Enriquez
- “I was grateful to see President Obama’s victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!” ~ Maya Angelou
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“Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.” ~ Luis Fortuno
- “The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people’s civil rights.” ~ Lynn Samuels
- “I look in the eyes and I see the heart. As long as it’s a human story. I would like to turn on my television and see African American, Hispanic, Asian as well as Caucasian. And I think there are probably more people like me.” ~ Angela Bassett
- “Why do so many black and Hispanic people vote for liberals who so energetically support the murder of black and Hispanic babies?” ~ Bristol Palin
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“Ending the lawlessness at the border? I don’t believe a fourth-generation Hispanic thinks that’s evil. I don’t think an African American thinks there’s anything wrong with protecting their jobs for a change.” ~ Jeff Sessions
- “Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter. That’s anti-American and it’s racist.” ~ Rudy Giuliani
- “We separated like oil and water. In the cafeteria, you’d see a table of black jocks, table of white jocks, table of rich white kids, table of Hispanic kids, table of Chinese kids, table of druggies, table of chatterboxes, and so on. Wait! There’s a diverse table over there! With a few kids of different tenacities and economic status! Oh, that’s the nerds. That’s where I sat. We weren’t cool enough for the other tables, so we didn’t discriminate against anybody.” ~ Gene Weingarten
- “The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.” ~ Jesse Jackson
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“Personal prejudice: Hispanic and Latino women with blond hair look like hookers to me, no matter how clean or cute they are. Somehow those skin tones that look so good with dark, dark hair just don’t work for me with lighter shades.” ~ John Byrne
- “Emboldened by the progress the Republican National Committee has made to ensure we are effectively engaging the Hispanic community year-round. It’s important our party listens to voters’ concerns and shares our proven principles, offering real solutions to the issues facing all communities.” ~ Marco Rubio
- “I am honored to be both an active surrogate and a member of the RNC’s Hispanic advisory council. The national effort to work seamlessly with our state parties has improved our landscape and chances with Latino voters, not just in San Diego but across the country.” ~ Rosario Marin
- “Over the last year, the RNC has made an unprecedented effort to engage Hispanic communities across Florida and around the country. Here in Florida the RNC has hired a diverse group of Hispanic staffers who are growing and reaching out to our community, to them I offer my most sincere gratitude.” ~ Anitere Flores
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“[Donald] Trump has quietly rolled out an immigration plan with specifics and everyone wants specifics. He’s got immigration with specifics, a black and Hispanic outreach plan with specifics.” ~ Eric Bolling
- “I love how New York is so multicultural. I wish I was ethnic, I’m nothing. Because if you’re Hispanic and you get angry, people are like, ‘He’s got a Latin temper!’ If you’re a white guy and you get angry, people are like, ‘That guy’s a jerk.'” ~ Jim Gaffigan
- “I haven’t gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor” ~ Mario Lopez
- “I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic” ~ Mario Lopez
- “I feel like decades ago it was either youre black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.” ~ Annie Ilonzeh
- “There’s the National Organization for Women feminist faction, there’s the NAACP liberal African-American faction, there’s the La Raza Hispanic faction. They’re pitted against each other and it runs so contrary to the E pluribus unum American middle class experience.” ~ Andrew Breitbart
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“Big scandal on the new ‘Survivor’ series. The white, the black and the Hispanic teams were caught cheating off the Asian team.” ~ Jay Leno
- “Stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York, because it largely singled out black and Hispanic young men.” ~ Lester Holt
- “What I want to do is create great content on television and movies. It is not my role to program only for Latinos, and you can’t really assume that Hispanics only want Hispanic content. But I do think that we are severely underrepresented in television and film. And instead of complaining about not seeing ourselves, we should become film producers, directors, and writers, and tell our story.” ~ Eva Longoria
- “What I think I represent is a patriot who has no political baggage behind him that has dedicated his entire life to serving America and all segments of our citizenship. I think I bring an element of appeal to a very broad spectrum of Texans to include veterans, the middle class, the lower class and the Hispanic population, obviously. But, also, I think there is this leadership quality that has to be taken into consideration.” ~ Ricardo Sanchez
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“Part-black generally means all-black in Americans’ minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups’ camps.” ~ Jeffrey Kluger
- “Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day. And let my say community policing is a great idea. It’s worked in the Hoosier state. And we fully support that. Donald Trump and I are going to make sure that law enforcement have the resources and the tools to be able to really restore law and order to the cities and communities in this nation.” ~ Mike Pence
- “I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, ‘Where are Middle Eastern women?'” ~ Kim Kardashian
- “There should be no surprise that forgotten America, no matter their ethnicity, because we see that Mr. Trump was able to get Hispanic voters, African American voters. Oh my God, the majority of, of, of the women voters that he was able to amass, even though he was painted as the other, my party, the Democratic party, did not listen to the voices of the forgotten America.” ~ Nina Turner
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“Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.” ~ Ted Cruz
- “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.'” ~ Charlie Gonzalez
- “You know, I’m very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I’ve received.” ~ Carly Fiorina
- “A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, ‘When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?’ I think it’s a great question. I’ll tell you, in my life I’ve never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.” ~ Ted Cruz
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“Indians were here first – it’s about time. We’re way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we’re beginning to take a page out of their notebook.” ~ Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- “La Raza stands for ‘The Race’ – and they say so openly. They are a pro-Hispanic organization; I will call them a racist organization. They base their philosophy on race. They advocate for those minorities that fit within the category that they define as drives them. They are apologists for illegal immigrants – and we are funding them with your tax dollars in this administration through earmarks. It is outrageous. It’s an in-your-face act on the part of this Congress.” ~ Steve King
- “I don’t want to be pitted as a person who is anti-Latino or anti-Hispanic because I believe in the laws.” ~ Andrew Breitbart
- “Number one, it is absolutely critical that we tone down the rhetoric when it comes to the immigration debate, because there has been an undertone that has been ugly. Oftentimes, it has been directed at the Hispanic community. We have seen hate crimes skyrocket in the wake of the immigration debate as it has been conducted in Washington, and that is unacceptable.” ~ Barack Obama
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“Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day.” ~ Mike Pence
- “And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff. You are going to see a tremendous Hispanic vote for President Obama. Overwhelming black vote for President Obama. And women will probably break President Obamas way. People feel that they are entitled to things and which candidate, between the two, is going to give them things?” ~ Bill O’Reilly
- “The major difference for us in America with respect to Hispanic immigration is that it is so large and that it is coming from neighboring countries rather than those countries off the Atlantic or Pacific. That creates different issues and different problems for us as compared to the past. It is still very different, however, from the situation in Europe where we see people with a very different non-European religion coming from neighboring countries.” ~ Samuel P. Huntington
- “For years, the Democrats have controlled the inner cities; some up to 100 years; some over 100 years; unbroken. I say to the African American community and to the Hispanic community: What the hell do you have to lose? I will fix it. We will make them good. We’ll make them safe. We’ll bring back jobs. We’ll create good, good schools and education.” ~ Donald Trump , Hispanic quotes about education
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“We will help the Hispanic-American people, who have been treated so badly and so unfairly in our nation, we will help them.” ~ Donald Trump
- “This oppressor/oppressed cultural Marxist thing is you’re an authentic woman and an authentic black even only if you support liberal causes. If you are a woman, if you are a Hispanic, if you are black, and you abide by a value system that believes in limited government and constitutional principles, you are an apostate to the utopian ideals of the left, and you are not protected, and you are pilloried, and that is why I became a conservative because I thought it was fundamentally unfair, fundamentally un-American.” ~ Andrew Breitbart
- “It wasn’t [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being wheeled by her son waving a big American flag, and then seeing a guy with his baby in his arms saying, “I didn’t want her to miss tonight! I wanted to be able to tell her!” And to see all these people, a Hispanic cop dancing with an old white woman, wow! I mean, that’s the world I want to live in, and because it’s the world I want to live in, I had a hard time leaving.” ~ Bill Ayers
- “This oppressor/oppressed cultural Marxist thing is you’re an authentic woman and an authentic black even only if you support liberal causes. If you are a woman, if you are a Hispanic, if you are black, and you abide by a value system that believes in limited government and constitutional principles, you are an apostate to the utopian ideals of the left, and you are not protected, and you are pilloried, and that is why I became a conservative because I thought it was fundamentally unfair, fundamentally un-American.” ~ Andrew Breitbart
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“A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black, white, Asian and Hispanic.” ~ Thomas Sowell
- “The right, like Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbauggh, use women and the black man and the Hispanic immigrant and the gay man as a scapgoat for society’s ills. They pretend it’s about traditional family values, but that’s a bullshit phrase that means nothing to me. They like to use us all. They use pro-life as a way to hate women and slam women, dressed up in the nobility of saving unborn fetuses. I think it’s just misogyny.” ~ Janeane Garofalo
- “For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today’s immigrants. They have come here for the same reason that families have always come here-for the hope that in America, they could build a better life for themselves and their families. Like the waves of immigrants that came before them and the Hispanic Americans whose families have been here for generations, the recent arrival of Latino immigrants will only enrich our country.” ~ Barack Obama
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“In California, we are a sixty percent Hispanic state, we elected an Austrian governor. Even old Nazis are going “That’s weird.”” ~ Robin Williams
- “This is why the terrorists hate us. And it’s not the glitter and it’s not the pomp and circumstance. We’ve got black and white, we’ve got Hispanic and Asian, we got gay, straight, and Guttenberg, all working together for one common goal: to get the mirror ball. And the mirror ball doesn’t care what color you are, and it doesn’t care how rich your parents are, and it doesn’t care what God you pray to. It’s an even wooden floor, and may the best man or woman win. And I say God bless Dancing with the Stars, and God bless the USA.” ~ Adam Carolla
- “The average late-night viewer is in their mid-50s and the average viewer of TBS is in their 30s and is largely African-American and Hispanic, already, before I even get there.” ~ George Lopez
