Raquel Cepeda famous quotes

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Space #People #Identity

The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Truth Is #Hunts

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Mother #Birth #Shows

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 generation.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Block #Hands #Generations

Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that's opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Doors #Keys #Hip Hop

Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Encouragement #Support #Found

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Adventure #Past #Band

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Feelings #Certain #Standing

Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Fall #Eye #Dark

The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Levels #Next #Coincidence

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 of the folks here.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Heart #Mcdonalds #Kfc

Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Mean #America #Racism

I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Mother #Feelings #World

There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Blood #Want

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Way #Sometimes #Reaching

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?
-- Raquel Cepeda

#White #America #Black

Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Identity #Fluid #Diverse

I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Travel #Xenophobia #Racism

The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Soul #Skins #Rooms

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Spiritual #Soul #Needs

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 spouses, our families, and our friends.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Children #Blood #Ideas

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 - except her man.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Girl #Mother #Brother

The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Land #Republic #Mecca

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#New York #Home #Thinking

Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well, with grace, humor, and fierce grit. Mock doesn't only redefine what realness means to her, but challenges us to rethink our own perceptions of gender and sexuality, feminism and sisterhood, making this book a transcendent piece of American literature.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Book #Mean #Journey

To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Stupid #Pieces #Bling

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Home #Years #Cyprus

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 inaccessible to most people
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Beautiful #Thinking #People

Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Ends

We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Thinking #Accepting #Teach

Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Home #Names #Paradise

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Years #Parent #Trying

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Eye #Race

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 longer need to return.
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Purpose #Next #Return

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 of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water
-- Raquel Cepeda

#Wall #Ocean #Past