#latin

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them. ↗

— David Byrne

#also #america #does #emulate #hate

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#effect #ever #help #isolating #lives

In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#attractive #believe #latin #latin america #skinny

I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds. ↗

— Nelly Furtado

#bonding #canadian #chinese #east #first

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed. ↗

— Aaron Sanchez

#crappy #food #latin #like #marginal

The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of. ↗

— Ednita Nazario

#freedom #gives #latin #lot #musical

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican. ↗

— Rosie Perez

#i #latin #myself #puerto #rican

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#affirming #draw #examine #into #look

Typically, during recessionary times, particular groups suffer higher rates of unemployment -African Americans, and Latinos, and in some cases other minority groups. If you don't have a high level of training or education you're going to fall into that category. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#cases #category #during #education #fall

If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others. ↗

— Diane Wood Middlebrook

#helping-others #mental-illness #relating #self-disclosure #suffering