# data[].attributes.body
I think this quote means if your a black latino than your not latin your just black but if you were white and saying you were latin than they all just say your latin.-tyania

# data[].attributes.body
"Knowing that as a person who is part of three different minority communities, how much harder I would have to work compared to my white peers. The fight for identity, existence and liberation for myself and others like me would be long and challenging. There's just not enough being done within the Black and Latino communities as far as representation is concerned, behind and in front of the cameras. "

# data[].attributes.body
“It really bewilders me how Latinos are not as aware of our Black history as we are in the states.”

# data[].attributes.body
“Black Latinos don’t necessarily have the same experience as Latinos who are not Black. I, personally, do not identify as Latino because Latino means Latin and Latin, it means white. And I’m not white, so I just call myself Afro-Taíno cause that’s what I am.”

# data[].attributes.body
"I'm still trying to get that message out there, to let them know that I'm one of them and part of that community too."

# data[].attributes.body
“Since early, it’d be like, I’m Cuban but people didn’t get it because I was also brown-skinned...We’re all different, but you have to accept our differences. As far as Afro-Cuban goes, I’m finding more and more that there’s people opening their eyes to seeing that Latinos come in all colors, all shades.”

# data[].attributes.body
“I am proud to be Latina. I will not accept anyone telling me that I’m less or whatever, because to me, that is just hysterical. But I don’t like to break and divide myself into all these small little categories like, 'I’m an American, a woman, a Latina, a black Latina.' No. I am Zoe."

# data[].attributes.body
"I know that nobody wants to talk about it, but we suffer a lot of racism, we suffer a lot of colorism, amongst ourselves."
“They never knew how to place me. It was like, ‘Your look is messing up the choreography,’”
“They told me, ‘You’re beautiful! It’s just that we’re looking for someone more, como que, Latina.’”

# data[].attributes.body
"I have felt expectations to conceal my Afro Latina features and was even told I looked “too Latina” for a Latina role...We have to be 'fake Latinas' And here’s the thing about ‘fake Latinas’ – when you look at Latinas who are succeeding in Hollywood, they’re super thin and you really can’t tell if she’s Latina or not.”

# data[].attributes.body
"People still tell me, ‘You speak Spanish? You’re Spanish? You’re Puerto Rican?’ They can’t wrap their minds around it...We come in all colors. My grandfather was extremely dark and from Puerto Rico, but his brother had blond hair and blue eyes. There are so many different shades, and I think Hollywood has yet to realize that.”