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

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Source : Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

Raquel Cepeda

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“That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
“Good politics are often inextricably intertwined.”
“I have been injured 37 times, in seven cases seriously. I've already had a cornada (horn-wound) at stomach level. A bull's horn once struck me in the neck, just below the larynx. And once I was hit in the upper leg, where he damaged the femoral artery and the saphenous vein. Injuries are my medals. The last injury is my worst cornada. Now I've won the gold.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.”
“We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.”
“Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.”
“While face-to-face is just as important as it ever was, now that we've got all kinds of new tools, let us tighten bonds in between those in-person moments.”
“You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.”

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