...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
Brian FrielStichwörter: history identity language irish
I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.
Henry David ThoreauStichwörter: identity patriotism
We’re afraid the others will think we’re agringadas because we don’t speak Chicano Spanish. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each other, vying to be “real” Chicanas, to speak like Chicanos. There is no one Chicano language just as there is no one Chicano experience.
Gloria E. AnzaldúaStichwörter: identity chicano chicana chicanos internalized-racism
Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?
Raquel CepedaStichwörter: identity america race political racism-in-the-west hispanic hispanic-american latina-american latino-american racial-ambiguity hyphenated-identities
Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.
Raquel CepedaStichwörter: identity spirituality diversity race human-experience journey-in-life race-america journeying
Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.
Raquel CepedaStichwörter: freedom identity freedom-of-thought race immigrant-experience hispanic latino-americans latinos race-in-america
I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around recklessly, where I’m almost overwhelmed with the amount of attention and love I receive from Mami’s family. In New York, I’m invisible.
Raquel CepedaStichwörter: family identity home loneliness alone isolation paradise coming-of-age invisibility paraiso transnational
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
I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole.
Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown.
Stichwörter: humor self-acceptance identity growth
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