Claudia Romo Edelman

Quotes

• “Every time I went to a restaurant and there was a waiter who was clearly Latino, and I spoke to him in Spanish, he would try to deny his identity, to suppress it”
• “For a group that is so powerful to think of themselves as so weak, for a group that is so big to be seen so small? It’s a big thing”
• “And then I started learning that, in America, they invented a word that means that 26 different countries all of a sudden are one group, and that I was going to belong to that group, and that that group was not terribly well perceived”
• “If you’re Jorge, you pretend to be George, and you leave yourself at home, and you come with someone you don’t know”
• “The work that I’m doing is very much inviting companies, decisionmakers, and Latinos everywhere to take action,” she says, “so that we can be seen as what we are: positive contributors to the country”
• “I work out with my husband six times a week”

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