Raquel Cepeda Quotes

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• Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.
• Nobody, she felt, understood her-not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie -…
• I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our…
• Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.
• I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.
• We travel with the same clan over and over again, from one life to the next, until some ultimate purpose is fulfilled and we no…
• When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically.
• Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?
• A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
• Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.
• I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.
• Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.
• For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.
• This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.
• Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in.
• The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.
• Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.
• Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing…
• This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.
• Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.

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