All Raquel Cepeda Quotes
- Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about. America
- 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 -… Boys
- 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… Blood
- Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end. All
- I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder. All
- 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… Clan
- When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically. Ancestor
- Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America? Aliens
- A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love. Birth
- Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse. Diverse
- I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth. Belonged
- Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places. Encouragement
- For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound. Adventure
- This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation. Almost Certain
- Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in. Afraid
- The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences. Carried
- Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady. Allowing
- 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… Bellies
- This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me. Each
- Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home. Home
- We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths. Accept
- Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next… Block
- Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it… All
- The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations… Ancient
- If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground Aphrodite