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

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

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  3. When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves…sometimes even physically. – Raquel Cepeda
  4. For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound. – Raquel Cepeda
  5. I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not to notice. – Raquel Cepeda
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  7. Hip-hop…has been the proverbial key that’s opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet. – Raquel Cepeda
  8. 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
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  12. …being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about. – Raquel Cepeda
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  14. 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
  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. Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I’m proud to be Latina. – Raquel Welch
  17. For excellent health and a good skin color, I recommend that people sit next to a shady ultraviolet transmitting window when indoors. – Steven Magee
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  19. Often we agree to shady but attractive propositions and as a result we have sorrow – Sunday Adelaja
  20. There is no true freedom without time freedom. And there is no time freedom without financial freedom. – Amah Lambert
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  22. Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. – Viktor E Frankl
  23. Life is made up of Moments. Moments create Days, days create Months, months create Years, years create LIFE. Lose the Moment and you lose Life. – RVM
  24. Create something. Create something ugly. Create something beautiful.  I don’t care what it is. Create it.  – Jill Telford
  25. My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own. – TaNehisi Coates
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  28. My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ. – JD Greear
  29. Through Christ we have a new identity–we should not be speaking to our old man, the sinner, and giving him his identity back. – Eric Samuel Timm
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  35. When your identity switch from the personal identity to the eternal self, no fear of death or karmic bondage arise in you. – Roshan Sharma
  36. Not allowing the mind its freedom to think and find the purpose of life takes away the vision to focus. – Amitav Chowdhury
  37. Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event. – Cyndi Lee
  38. Create your own out of the box thinking, create your own box. – Stephen Richards
  39. woMAN-ipulate or IMAGE-innateDid GOD create MAN in his own image? ORDid MAN create GOD in his own image? – Kamil Ali
  40. To express open creativity, you first need to create your own space of seclusion. – Anthony Liccione

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