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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.

Mexico is a mosaic of different realities and beauties.

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.

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

When you talk about Mexican culture, it's wrestling and soccer.

Mexico is known throughout the world thanks to mariachi.

We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.

California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.