Top 371 Puerto Rican Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in a house where we danced all the time because we're Puerto Rican.

I believe, as a Puerto Rican, that the majority of Puerto Ricans want to be Puerto Ricans. Once we become annexed to the United States or by the United States, that we will lose our national identity. I can look at Hawaii as an example of people who lose, the Natives who lose their identity. I can look into the Native American reservations and see people who lose their national identity, their culture, their language, their land. And that's what's going to happen to Puerto Ricans here.

There were a lot of kids from Puerto Rico at my high school in Florida; people always assumed I was Puerto Rican. Even now in California, I get talked to on the street in Spanish constantly!

My mom's Puerto Rican. That's why I'm so lively and colorful.

I'm half Puerto Rican.

The Puerto Rican fans have supported me and it means a lot. I'm a Puerto Rican just like they are.

As a Puerto Rican, I'm always going be grateful to Jose Andres.

I'm not an immigrant - I was born and raised in New York. My parents are Puerto Rican, and Puerto Rico is a part of the U.S., for the people that don't know. So my whole life, I've identified as an American. There are times when I've gone to Puerto Rico, and there, I'm seen as the American cousin.

But the only comparison that I want to Lenny Bruce is that I'm funny. I'm Freddie Prinze, Puerto Rican all the way.

The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner!

I always tell my wife she's married to the Puerto Rican Elvis.

It's great to be Puerto Rican, because Puerto Rico loves boxing. They don't have a lot of major sports down there.

The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.

I fought Miguel Cotto in Madison Square Garden on the eve of the Puerto Rican Day parade - it was like fighting the devil in Hell.

I'm very proud being Puerto Rican. I'm American. That is what America is made of - people from different lands.

Medalla is Puerto Rico's national treasure, as I call it. It's a Puerto Rican national beer - a great light beer for a beach day.

I definitely think it's cool being Puerto Rican and Dominican, but I feel it has no influence on my music.

I'm a Puerto Rican woman whose family has roots in Regla de Ocha, also known as Santeria.

Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner!

I often say to my friends that I felt too Puerto Rican to live in the States; then I felt too American to live in Puerto Rico. So when I settled back in Puerto Rico in 1992, I had to come to terms with all of that.

It's amazing to be a Puerto Rican fighter; we have a great history of fighters.

I just want to go down as one of the best Puerto Rican and best Latin fighters ever.

Some of our best fighters are not only Puerto Rican greats but all-time greats of the sport. Carlos Ortiz, Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Benitez and Felix 'Tito' Trinidad and many others have made Puerto Rican boxing what it is today, and I am only an extension of their greatness.

The Documents Project has actively collected documentation on both island-based Puerto Rican art as well as Nuyorican art in the United States through partnerships and researchers ceded at the University of Puerto Rico's museum in San Juan and Hunter College's Center for Puerto Rican Studies in New York City, respectively.

The farther away you writers stay, the better I like it. You know why? Because you're trying to create a bad image of me... you do it because I'm black and Puerto Rican, but I'm proud to be Puerto Rican.

I don't think it's fair that you can say I'm not a Puerto Rican fighter because I wasn't born in Puerto Rico, when my blood is Puerto Rican.

A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.

To be the first Puerto Rican to win a world title in four divisions would be an achievement. Gomez, Benitez, there have been a lot of good fighters from Puerto Rico before me. When I started boxing, Tito Trinidad was our big star.

You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.

I'm not messing with skiing. You can't get this Puerto Rican on the slope. Uh-uh.

I'm a raucous Puerto Rican!

I'm a very fertile Puerto Rican.

What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.

I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid.

I'm Puerto Rican, but I represent everybody.

It is interesting that both Chicano and Puerto Rican art in the United States form an important part of the Civil Rights legacy and dialog.

What really is nasty is showing your back to the Puerto Rican people.

I just want to keep the Puerto Rican tradition of champions alive.

I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation.

I grew up dancing salsa - you know, a traditional Puerto Rican dance.

In Texas, if your name is Carlos, you're a Mexican. In Florida, you're a Cuban. In New York, you're a Puerto Rican. And I come here and I find out I'm an Eskimo.

My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.

I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.

I am a Puerto Rican. I could have been born on the moon, but I'm still Puerto Rican.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

I am eternally grateful to all of the Latino groups outside of the Puerto Rican community, but including the Puerto-Rican community, who came to support me during the process [of nomination].

Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn't happen with Puerto Ricans, because you're a commonwealth.

I was like the only diverse kid in my high school, and I'm half-Puerto Rican. But yeah, I have a huge family and tons of cousins in Puerto Rico. We actually hung out with them last summer, and it was awesome. But I wish my grandfather had taught my dad Spanish when he was younger so he could've taught me when I was younger, and sometimes he does, too. It's a shame.

Drugs in a disco are great for white people because it allows them to feel more Puerto Rican while dancing.

Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.

A lot of people say things because I wasn't born here, but in my heart, I know that I am a true Puerto Rican champion.

I don't diet. I'm Puerto Rican! You can never take my rice, pork, and beans away.

I've been dealing with racism since I was a little kid! My dad's super black, from Puerto Rico. Then my mom's super white - she's Puerto Rican too, but she grew up in Milwaukee. As a Latino in the U.S. I've seen how we are treated differently based on the color of our skin.

I'm actually Hispanic, and my mother is Puerto Rican.

I feel that, as a Puerto Rican and Latin American musician, a lot of the stuff that I write, even if I mean it or not, is gonna have some elements of that.

It's amazing to be a Puerto Rican fighter, we have a great history of fighters. I say this all the time, 'I'm Puerto Rican, raised in Philadelphia so I got the best of both worlds. I got the Puerto Rican power and the Philly toughness. It comes a long way.

Growing up in the Midwest, Boston, and Alabama, I didn't know any Puerto Ricans... at least, I didn't know if I knew any Puerto Ricans. The only Puerto Rican that I had ever even heard of was Juan Epstein, one of the students from the classic 1970s sitcom 'Welcome Back, Kotter.'

A strong, durable Puerto Rican economy will leave the island better prepared to handle future natural disasters.

I'm such a true Puerto Rican.

I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.