Danielle Barnhouse

“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, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we musn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“right" way to be Chicana/o also could be a hegemonic discourse and exclusionary of those who do not fit. They recognized the possibility of multiple hegemonic structures and the danger of policing claims to identity.”
― Dolores Delgado Bernal, Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life: Feminista Perspectives on Pedagogy And Epistemology