"I'm everybody's friend, unless they don't like me. And then, I just totally can't understand that. I actually can't. I get really hurt if someone doesn't like me. It's weird."

“So many people preach that they love fashion, but really it's what I live for!”

“I think, you know, when you're an actor who's had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job - to say that you're expected somewhere, do you know what I mean?”

“There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ***** together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.”

“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.”

Source : Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

“I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.”

“I always say, you never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.”

“It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.”

“Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.”