"Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from……" — Raquel Cepeda
"Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?"
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30 Quotes by Raquel Cepeda
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Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.
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Nobody, she felt, understood her-not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or…
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I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be…
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Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.
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I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye…
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We travel with the same clan over and over again, from one life to the next, until some ultimate purpose…
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When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even…
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A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
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Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.
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I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.
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Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.
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For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.
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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
— Rudolf Arnheim
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages…
— Russell Baker
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
— Aeschylus
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
— Orson Scott Card
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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.
— Julian Casablancas
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all…
— Noam Chomsky
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There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books…
— Sandra Cisneros
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I feel... sexier, I think, with short hair. I feel like an alien!
— Pamela Anderson
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The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
— James Madison
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