"I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out."
"My grandfather was the only Mexican at his college, the only Hispanic person at work and the only one at the all-white country club. He tried to forget his Mexican roots, because he never wanted his kids to be made to feel different in America. He and my grandmother didn't speak Spanish to their children. Now, as a third-generation American, I feel as if I have finally cut loose."
"My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connected or attached to any race specifically. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don't speak Spanish. So, to say that I'm a Latin actress, OK, but it's not fitting; it would be insincere."
"My grandfather was the only one in our family to go to college. He made a choice not to speak Spanish in the house. He didn't want his kids to be different."

"[Before] I always felt like such an outcast and now I feel like people are more diverse ethnically. I was always self conscience of my puffy lips and darker skin when I was a kid, because I felt like I didn't fit in. And now its mainstream, and color isn't as big of a deal and if anything its better."
- Jessica "Don't Call Me Latina" Alba tells the new issue of Para Todos magazine


this is kind of old but i just remembered it and though i would share

^ very old! No, but i wanted to post a topic about this and I never got around to it. I totally lost respect for her.

I love Latina magazine and the new editor in charge decided to put her on the front cover and go out of their way to basically make the whole magazine about her for the March issue. She tried apologieznig and saying " i cant wait to have brown babies" she just sounded so pathetic and her dad is just as annoying saying " i have two degrees and graduated college but i still cant speak spanish and I wish to God i did" its like shut the fuck up.
Being latino is such a beatuiful thing and I acuatlly feel sorry for her and that she didnt get to experince the full pasion of how loving and united Latino families can be to each other.