I thought it was very important to remind us that we have all been migrants and to give credit to the people who are putting the oranges in our orang… - Lila Downs

We [as Latinxs] got to be there representing, explaining, and translating…It’s the only way we are going to have people come together.

My mother would really make me notice the world of women, and in Latin America they have a kind of magic in that they make society function in every kind of intimate way, as well as in the bigger picture.

I also come from a matriarchal family. My grandmother was left alone, not by choice. And then my mother as well. We lost my father when I was 16; he died. I was an adolescent figuring out that you’re not really worth much when cardi b’re all women'