Raquel Cepeda Quotes

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

Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playgroun...

I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still aliv...

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

The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are s...

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene ...

Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something ...

More than anything, this place feels familiar. I bury my hands in the hot sand and think about the e...

The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into o...

I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be...

Nobody, she felt, understood her--not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of...

We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they t...

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

Hip-hop is storytelling.

If it weren’t for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter ca...

I wish she’d said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and...

You are meant to be, despite how you got here; you’ll see someday.

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

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

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

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

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of Ameri...

Alice’s razor-thin blond hair is what people in Santo Domingo call bueno, but I don’t understand how...

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I ca...

Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.

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

I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Eart...

Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes al...

...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be abou...

Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they di...

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a...

The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becom...

Women destroy me. I allow them to.

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

I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around...

Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I c...

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting t...

Listen kid, it’s just you and me now, so let’s help each other out. Always be honest with me, and sh...

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

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

She looks like an empty shell of a woman with her soul hovering above her. We believe in spiritual g...

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