America may not realize it yet, but Latin prototypes are being created right now, and not just by me. They are these mambo kings and salsa queens, Aztec lords and Inca princesses, every Hernandez and Fernandez, whom this country will one day come to understand and respect.

We are taking our culture and suturing it to America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going to disappear. Unlike other peoples who totally assimil…

He was like twitching and frothing and it was my father, ... I went like all pale. I felt all the blood leave my body. And then my father was like, 'How dare y…

I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient …

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.