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.
Raquel CepedaTags: inspiration life-experience journey ancestry ancestors sand build morocco trekking building-blocks sahara spiritual-journey sahara-desert globe-trotting trek
I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.
Raquel CepedaTags: identity race racism hispanic hispanic-american latina latina-american latino-american race-as-concept racial-ambiguity
Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.
Raquel CepedaTags: inspirational inspiration encouragement support
In reality, Eduardo hoped the mask would make him appear vulnerable and self conscious, like a wounded animal these stupid women would fight each other over to mend.
Raquel CepedaTags: vulnerability masks rivalry masculinity machismo playboy players
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.
Raquel CepedaTags: love infatuation lust teenagers adolescence first-love teenage-love
Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.
Raquel CepedaTags: home spirituality paradise being suburbia state-of-being
The gaping hole in her heart is amplified when she catches a glimpse of the strands of silver hair framing her once young face in the mirror.
Raquel CepedaTags: self-image stressed immigrant-experience rocio
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 CepedaTags: family identity home loneliness alone isolation paradise coming-of-age invisibility paraiso transnational
Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.
Raquel CepedaTags: wisdom shakespeare romeo-and-juliet relationship-advice love-lost love-kills shakespeare-in-love
Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in.
Raquel CepedaTags: darkness eyes stress family-relationships mothers-and-daughters mami rocio
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