

“When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically.”
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“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.”
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?”
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.”
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“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.”
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
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