This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.
Raquel CepedaTag: life parents forgetting coming-of-age divorce families family-saga
She looks like an empty shell of a woman with her soul hovering above her. We believe in spiritual guías in Santo Domingo. Hers is her own self. I can see Mami’s soul desperately trying to find its way back into her small body.
Raquel CepedaTag: lost spirituality lost-innocence mami spiritual-guides
When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically.
Raquel CepedaTag: life inspirational journey spirituality ancestry illumination ancestors manifestation journey-in-life mythos
We travel with the same clan over and over again, from one life to the next, until some ultimate purpose is fulfilled and we no longer need to return.
Raquel CepedaTag: life purpose spirituality reincarnation karma traveling
Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?
Raquel CepedaTag: 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 CepedaTag: 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 CepedaTag: freedom identity freedom-of-thought race immigrant-experience hispanic latino-americans latinos race-in-america
Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well.
Raquel CepedaTag: family family-relationships sisterhood sisters opposites dysfunctional-families family-saga family-drama sisters-sibling-rivalry hispanic latino-american latina-americans latinas
Hip-hop is storytelling.
Raquel CepedaTag: storytelling culture storytellers hip-hop youth-culture counterculture
We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.
Raquel CepedaTag: coming-of-age infallibility educational-system educational-inequity miseducation
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