"We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and……" — Raquel Cepeda
"We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths."
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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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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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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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