Raquel Cepeda Quotes

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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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  Mother, Birth, Shows

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Block, Hands, Generations

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• 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.

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  Children, Blood, Ideas

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

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

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  Space, People, Identity

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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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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  White, America, Black

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

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  Truth Is, Hunts, Left

  Jessica Buchanan, Hannah Luce, Katherine Preston, Reyna Grande, Shirley MacLaine (2013). “The Lives of Others: Discover the Hidden Lives of Some of Our Favorite Atria Authors”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Blood, Want

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

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

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  Keys, Doors, Hip Hop

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• Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.

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  Encouragement, Support, Unlikely

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

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  Fall, Eye, Dark

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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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 physically.

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  Way, Sometimes, Reaching

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

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• The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.

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  Land, Republic, Mecca

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Travel, Heart, Mcdonalds

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Mean, America, Racism

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.

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  Diversity, Identity, Fluid

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Thinking, Accepting, Teach

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Soul, Skins, Rooms

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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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 of the beholder.

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  Eye, Race, I've Learned

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Mother, Feelings, Pieces

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Feelings, Certain, Standing

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

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  Travel, Wall, Ocean

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Travel, Xenophobia, Racism

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Levels, Next, Coincidence

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

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  Adventure, Past, Band

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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