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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.

    Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.178, Simon and Schuster
  • Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that's opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.

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

    Fall   Eye   Dark  
    Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
  • This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

    Divorce   Years   Parent  
    Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
  • The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.

  • 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.

    Girl   Mother   Brother  
    Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Spiritual   Soul   Needs  
    Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.268, Simon and Schuster
  • For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.

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

    Needs   Purpose   Next  
    Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
  • Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.

  • 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 (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.259, Simon and Schuster
  • A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

    Mother   Birth   Shows  
    Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.197, Simon and Schuster
  • The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.

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

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

    Home   Names   Paradise  
    Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
  • Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.

    Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
  • I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.

    Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.244, Simon and Schuster
  • Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?

    White   America   Black  
  • 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 (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.185, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

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

    Land   Republic   Mecca  
    Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.259, Simon and Schuster
  • Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.

    Ends  
    Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
  • Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

    Mean   America   Racism  
    Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.260, Simon and Schuster
  • When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically.

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

    Children   Blood   Ideas  
    Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.174, Simon and Schuster
  • Women destroy me. I allow them to.

    Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
  • I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.

    Eye   Race   I've Learned  
    Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

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

    Space   People   Identity  
    Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
  • 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 (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.68, Simon and Schuster
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