"Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that……" — Raquel Cepeda
"Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about."
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30 Quotes by Raquel Cepeda
Raquel Cepeda has 30 quotes on this site.
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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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Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?
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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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