Roselyn Sanchez Quotes

The contributions being made by Latinos are extraordinary, and we need to talk about them.

I feel like we have so much to add to this book called the American Dream, and I want to add our chapter to it. I want to talk about what it means to be brown American and this concept of what I feel is the New Brown America.

I want to see as many black professionals as possible.

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

If the United States is the melting pot of the world, you need entertainment - you need visuals that represent that.

The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.

As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of America depends in part on the success of the Latino community, and this opportunity is just one more signifier of that.

For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.

The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

I'd like to work on job and educational opportunities for all.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.

I was very pleased you know, and I was afraid that I might stick out, but I didn't. My happiest thing about that picture is that I proved that American actors can speak as well and also fit in with an ensemble like that.

I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.

In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona.

I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens.

I'm finding that I'm working with more and more Latino artists, and that's exciting.

The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'

I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.