"Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing……" — Raquel Cepeda
"Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady."
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30 Quotes by Raquel Cepeda
Raquel Cepeda has 30 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us…
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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
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