Alice’s razor-thin blond hair is what people in Santo Domingo call bueno, but I don’t understand how that kind of hair can be good. It doesn’t move at all, or ripple like the water in Boca Chica when I throw shells at it.
Raquel CepedaStichwörter: identity hair hair-drama boca-chica good-hair pelo-bueno santo-domingo
The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me.
Raquel CepedaStichwörter: identity america status-quo race racism race-relations latino identity-politics identity-crisis american-people american-society racial-tension latino-americans latina-americans hispanics
Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.
Raquel CepedaStichwörter: coming-of-age hip-hop youth-culture lingua-franca 80s-hip-hop counterculture disenfranchisement
You are meant to be, despite how you got here; you’ll see someday.
Raquel CepedaStichwörter: spirituality coming-of-age journey-in-life divine-intervention spiritual-guides
Women destroy me. I allow them to.
Raquel CepedaStichwörter: weakness infidelity masculinity cheating machismo male-and-female-relationships
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 CepedaStichwörter: travel traveling patriarchy morocco amazigh-girl atlas-mountains
Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people.
Raquel CepedaStichwörter: beauty god spiritual travel spirituality traveling traveler morocco sahara sahara-desert
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.
Raquel CepedaStichwörter: history travel the-past traveling morocco ancient-walls buried-past rabat royal-blue
Traveling further ingrained my desire to connect to a place other than an island that is slightly older, in a New World way, than the United States, especially after I found characteristics of my face in the faces of the people in my global community.
Raquel CepedaStichwörter: traveling new-world global-community spiritual-journey journeying love-of-travel
Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that’s opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.
Raquel CepedaStichwörter: journey travel hip-hop traveling hiphop journeying roaming global-hip-hop journeys-in-life proverbial-key
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