...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Brian Friel

Mots clés history identity language irish

Aller à la citation

---

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

Henry David Thoreau

Mots clés identity patriotism

Aller à la citation

---

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. Anzaldúa

Mots clés identity chicano chicana chicanos internalized-racism

Aller à la citation

---

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?

Raquel Cepeda

Mots clés identity america race political racism-in-the-west hispanic hispanic-american latina-american latino-american racial-ambiguity hyphenated-identities

Aller à la citation

---

Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.

Raquel Cepeda

Mots clés identity spirituality diversity race human-experience journey-in-life race-america journeying

Aller à la citation

---

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

Raquel Cepeda

Mots clés freedom identity freedom-of-thought race immigrant-experience hispanic latino-americans latinos race-in-america

Aller à la citation

---

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 Cepeda

Mots clés family identity home loneliness alone isolation paradise coming-of-age invisibility paraiso transnational

Aller à la citation

---

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 Cepeda

Mots clés identity hair hair-drama boca-chica good-hair pelo-bueno santo-domingo

Aller à la citation

---

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 Cepeda

Mots clés identity america status-quo race racism race-relations latino identity-politics identity-crisis american-people american-society racial-tension latino-americans latina-americans hispanics

Aller à la citation

---

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.

Marc Maron

Mots clés humor self-acceptance identity growth

Aller à la citation

---

« ; premier précédent
Page 47 de 55.
suivant dernier » ;

---

---