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.
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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.
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Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.
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You are meant to be, despite how you got here; you’ll see someday.
Raquel CepedaMots clés spirituality coming-of-age journey-in-life divine-intervention spiritual-guides
Women destroy me. I allow them to.
Raquel CepedaMots clés 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 CepedaMots clés 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.
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