Alice’s razor-thin blond hair is what people in Santo Domingo call Buena, 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

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

— Raquel Cepeda

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

— Raquel Cepeda

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

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

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

— Raquel Cepeda

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

— Raquel Cepeda

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

Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that’s opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.

— Raquel Cepeda

Hip-hop is storytelling.

— Raquel Cepeda