Top 35 Raquel Cepeda Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.”

— Raquel Cepeda

2. “The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.”

— Raquel Cepeda

3. “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 Cepeda

4. “Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.”

— Raquel Cepeda

5. “A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.”

— Raquel Cepeda

6. “The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.”

— Raquel Cepeda

7. “To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy.”

— Raquel Cepeda

8. “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.”

— Raquel Cepeda

9. “Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.”

— Raquel Cepeda

10. “The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.”

— Raquel Cepeda

11. “The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.”

— Raquel Cepeda

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

— Raquel Cepeda

13. “There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not.”

— Raquel Cepeda

14. “While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.”

— Raquel Cepeda

15. “This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.”

— Raquel Cepeda

16. “Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.”

— Raquel Cepeda

17. “If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground.”

— Raquel Cepeda

18. “Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.”

— Raquel Cepeda

19. “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 Cepeda

20. “Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here.”

— Raquel Cepeda

21. “I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.”

— Raquel Cepeda

22. “I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.”

— Raquel Cepeda

23. “Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.”

— Raquel Cepeda

24. “We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.”

— Raquel Cepeda

25. “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 Cepeda

26. “For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.”

— Raquel Cepeda

27. “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.”

— Raquel Cepeda

28. “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 Cepeda

29. “Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in.”

— Raquel Cepeda

30. “This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.”

— Raquel Cepeda

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

— Raquel Cepeda

32. “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.”

— Raquel Cepeda

33. “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 Cepeda

34. “Women destroy me. I allow them to.”

— Raquel Cepeda

35. “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