Mexico

🇲🇽Guillermo del Toro

Literature

b. 1964

"Peter Frankfurt , discussing a stuntman: "He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch."

🇲🇽Laura Esquivel

Literature

b. 1950

"Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves"

🇲🇽Louis C.K.

Entertainment

b. 1967

"They charged me 15 dollars. That's how much it costs to only have 20 dollars."

"You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master."

🇲🇽Subcomandante Marcos

Military

b. 1957

"EZLN and Subcomandante Marcos official webpage"

🇲🇽Salma Hayek

Entertainment

b. 1966

"It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them."

🇲🇽Luis Alberto Urrea

Literature

b. 1955

"The kitchen was the United States; the living room was Mexico…One side was struggling with all her might to make me an American boy, and the other side, with all of his might, was trying to keep me a Mexican boy."

🇲🇽Enrique Peña Nieto

Politics

b. 1966

"We are a sovereign nation, and we will act as such. The exercise of sovereignty implies that, in the process of negotiation, our only interest is that of Mexico and those of Mexicans."

🇲🇽Alejandro Fernández

Art

b. 1971

"Well, I am so far, and you put me a bottle of tequila here."

🇲🇽Hugo Chávez

Politics

1976–2013

"That man, the king of vacations... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but: "You have to flee." and didn't say how... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality."

🇲🇽Juan Rulfo

Literature

1917–1986

"In my life there are many silences…In my writing, too."

🇲🇽Luis Barragán

Art

1902–1988

"The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis."

🇲🇽Geronimo

Medicine

1829–1909

"I hoped soon to serve my people in battle. I had long desired to fight with our warriors."

🇲🇽Carlos Gershenson

Education

b. 1978

"If something has an explanation, you can explain it. If it has no explanation, you should explain why you cannot explain it."

🇲🇽Victor Villaseñor

Literature

b. 1940

"I nodded. This was something that I really liked a lot about my mother and father. They were always thinking ahead so we didn’t make the same mistake twice."

🇲🇽Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Literature

1942–2004

"A misinformed people is a subjugated people."

🇲🇽Jacob Bekenstein

Science

1947–2015

"There is a prescription that works well, MOND, but the reason it works so well is not known. You may say that MOND tells us how the real theory of gravity should look."

🇲🇽Tamara De Anda

Journalism

b. 1983

"I received an email for a casting call from Aeromexico specifying that they don't want anyone dark-skinned. Tsss."

🇲🇽Frida Kahlo

Art

Realism

1907–1954

"I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego."

🇲🇽Carlos Fuentes

Literature

1928–2012

"The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you."

🇲🇽Benito Juárez

Politics

1806–1872

"Adversity, Citizen Deputies, discourages none but contemptible peoples; ours has been ennobled by great feats and we are far from being shorn of the immense obstacles, material and moral, which the country will oppose…"

🇲🇽Diego Rivera

Art

1886–1957

"Here it is—the might, the power, the energy, the sadness, the glory, the youthfulness of our lands."

🇲🇽Roberta Colindrez

Entertainment

b. 1986

"I think this is part of the female gaze…We are used to being watched, so why not watch ourselves, and why not enjoy it? Watching each other, excluding the visage of men—I can enjoy my sexuality."

🇲🇽Porfirio Díaz

Politics

Porfiriato

1830–1915

"Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!"

🇲🇽José José

Art

1948–2019

"For three years I was immersed in a depression, I did not know how to assimilate the loss of my voice, which was a reality."

🇲🇽Emiliano Zapata

Social Activism

1879–1919

"Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny."

🇲🇽Miguel Ángel Ruiz

Philosophy

b. 1952

"Common sense is wisdom, and wisdom is different from knowledge. You are wise when you no longer act against yourself. You are wise when you live in harmony with yourself, with your own kind, with all of creation."

"I am not a criminal. I have nothing to be ashamed of. We are workers, mothers, human beings. We should be able to be proud of who we are."

🇲🇽Pancho Villa

Politics

1878–1923

"I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.."

🇲🇽Rafael Márquez (boxer)

Sports

b. 1979

"Vazquez is the fiercest opponent I have ever faced and I wear my super bantamweight championship belt with pride because I won it by defeating him."

"To Freud's confusion on what do women want, I would say we want to dismantle a racist and misogynist heteronormative patriarchy that sucks the life out of women."

🇲🇽Práxedis Guerrero

Journalism

1882–1910

"Weaving the Past: Journey of Discovery, Documental by Walter Dominguez about Práxedis Guerrero."

🇲🇽Cuauhtémoc Blanco

Politics

b. 1973

"For me the best players are in the poor suburbs, but the clubs are not interested."

🇲🇽Vicente Guerrero

Politics

1782–1831

"Compañeros, this old man is my father. He has come to offer me rewards in the name of the Spaniards. I have always respected my father but my homeland comes first."

🇲🇽Bala

Entertainment

b. 2004

"Bala is unique in many ways. The way he changed Tamil cinema's character was commendable. Awards are not just reflections on the cinematic qualities but also the ability to change other filmmakers."

🇲🇽Don Miguel Ruiz

Philosophy

b. 1952

"Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love."