Luis Valdez quotes

Luis Valdez quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.”
-- Luis Valdez

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“The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.”
-- Luis Valdez

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“I believe in entertainment. I love entertainment. But I love it with a purpose. I want people to come out thinking about what they saw, and perhaps reassessing what's happening in their own lives with their families.”
-- Luis Valdez

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“When you start at the beginning of your career [that] was really focused on your own needs and obstacles, and ultimately you realize you're not really doing it for yourself.”
-- Luis Valdez

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“A lot of the public responses are based on the prejudices and ignorance, they've been inherited from previous generations. California has always been a multicultural state, but the thing is, you've got to open your eyes and people in general need to get over their own prejudices.”
-- Luis Valdez

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“It comes out of human beings, it comes from the dark side of the human being, when people don't give a hoot about other people and they'll steal and rob and rob the food out of baby's mouths, so it's incumbent on every new generation to develop a social conscience and to really defend themselves. And that takes demonstrations sometimes.”
-- Luis Valdez

Source : Source: www.geekscape.net

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