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I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic thing is that all three of those categories often exist inside of the same family  (Mexican American Quotes) You see the one thing I’ve always maintained is that I’m an American Indian. I’m not a Native American. I’m not politically correct. Everyone who’s born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans. And if you notice, I put American before my ethnicity. I’m not a hyphenated African-American or Irish-American or Jewish-American or Mexican-American  (Mexican American Quotes) I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. ‘The Color Purple’ was the first time I saw people who looked like me  (Mexican American Quotes) If New Mexican voters believe the path to create American jobs is keeping taxes low, then they have an option. That’s my campaign  (Mexican American Quotes) Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality  (Mexican American Quotes) After the Reagan years, there were only three people of color in the Republican Party. Their slogan was ‘Republicans - the Other White Meat.’ George [H.] Bush tried to dispel the ‘whites only’ image of his party, often referring to his Mexican-American grandkids as ‘the little brown ones over there,’ and nominated Clarence Uncle Thomas to the Supreme Court  (Mexican American Quotes) You have the United States, and you have Mexico, and then you have this Mexican-American thing which is this third culture, which I like to call Aztlan  (Mexican American Quotes) Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America  (Mexican American Quotes) I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not  (Mexican American Quotes)