“People would call us "dirty Mexicans."”

—  Luis Valdez

I remember going to a movie in Reedly where we weren't allowed to sit in the Anglo section. We were told by the ushers to sit with the rest of the Mexicans, because this section was reserved for whites. Those are things you never forget.

On experiencing racism as a child in “An Interview with Luis Valdez” https://journals.ku.edu/latr/article/download/491/466/ in LATIN AMERICAN THEATRE REVIEW (Spring 1982)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "People would call us "dirty Mexicans."" by Luis Valdez?
Luis Valdez photo
Luis Valdez 3
American film director 1940

Related quotes

Ulysses S. Grant photo

“The Mexicans were badly commanded, and there was very little hard fighting during that war, at least nothing to be compared with what was seen afterward in our own. Our soldiers had only to show the bayonet at the Mexicans and they would run. As to the bowie-knife, I do not think one was used during the war. It was a pity to see good troops used as the Mexican soldiers were in those campaigns. I do not think a more incompetent set of officers ever existed than those who commanded the Mexicans. With an able general the Mexicans would make a good fight, for they are a courageous people. But I do not suppose any war was ever fought with reference to which so many romances were invented as the war in Mexico.”

Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) 18th President of the United States

Source: 1870s, Around the World with General Grant (1879), pp. 162–163

Natacha Rambova photo

“I shall always love the Mexican people for what the happiness they gave us that day. There was nothing that was too much for them to do.”

Natacha Rambova (1897–1966) American film personality and fashion designer

On her wedding day in Mexico, p. 61
Rudolph Valentino: A Wife's Memories of an Icon (2009)

Grigori Sokolnikov photo

“Sokolnikov: "Or they would utilise us, if we became simply an appendage of German Fascism, which would utilise us and then throw us away like a dirty rag, we would be condemned, disgraced and proved to be utter nonentities."”

Grigori Sokolnikov (1888–1939) Soviet diplomat
Luis Alberto Urrea photo

“I have always been amazed that it seems to come as a shock to people that Mexicans are human beings. And on a philosophical level, I always remind interviewers that “the border” has nothing to do being Mexican or not. The border is simply a metaphor for what divides and wounds us as people – and I mean that “border” between any group of people, gay-straight, black-white, Muslim-Jewish, etc…”

Luis Alberto Urrea (1955) Mexican-American poet

On how the term border may be applied to other social divides in “Interview with Pulitzer Prize Finalist Luis Alberto Urrea” https://www.latinobookreview.com/interview-with-pulitzer-prize-finalist-luis-alberto-urrea--latino-book-review.html in Latino Book Review (2018 Feb 25)

“People with dirty minds make better lovers.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1979

David Cross photo

“So at the CES, there was a guy selling off this porno called Fuck My Dirty Shithole: The Movie.”

David Cross (1964) American comedian, writer and actor

I bet you're thinking exactly what I was thinking … how did they make that book into a movie?
The Pride is Back

Ray Bradbury photo

“I’m a magician who writes about ideas. I’m not a science-fiction writer. People who call me that are wrong. Most of what I write is fantasy or magic realism or plays about my Mexican-American background.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Bradbury Talk Likely to Feature the Unexpected (1994)

Benito Juárez photo

“Mexicans: let us now pledge all our efforts to obtain and consolidate the benefits of peace.”

Benito Juárez (1806–1872) President of Mexico during XIX century

As quoted in Global History, Volume Two : The Industrial Revolution to the Age of Globalization (2008) by Jerry Weiner, Mark Willner, George A. Hero and Bonnie-Anne Briggs, p. 175
Context: Mexicans: let us now pledge all our efforts to obtain and consolidate the benefits of peace. Under its auspices, the protection of the laws and of the authorities will be sufficient for all the inhabitants of the Republic. May the people and the government respect the rights of all. Between individuals, as between nations, peace means respect for the rights of others.

Michael Parenti photo

“The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.”

Michael Parenti (1933) American academic

1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Fascism In a Pinstriped Suit, p. 32
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

Related topics