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"— Hey, hippie girl, you Mexican? On both sides? — Front & back, I say. — You sure don’t look..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:03:27 -0400

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— Hey, hippie girl, you Mexican? On both sides?
— Front & back, I say.
— You sure don’t look Mexican.

A part of me wants to kick their ass. A part of me feels sorry for their stupid ignorant selves. But if you’ve never been farther south than Nuevo Laredo, how the hell would you know what Mexicans are supposed to look like, right?

There are the green-eyed Mexicans. The rich blond Mexicans. The Mexicans w/the faces of Arab sheiks. The Jewish Mexicans. The big-footed-as-a-German Mexicans. The leftover-French Mexicans. The chaparrito compact Mexicans. The Tarahumara tall-as-a-desert-saguaro Mexicans. The Mediterranean Mexicans. The Mexicans w/Tunisian eyebrows. The negrito Mexicans of the double coasts. The Chinese Mexicans. The curly-haired, freckled-faced, red-headed Mexicans. The Lebanese Mexicans. Look, I don’t know what you’re talking about when you say I don’t look Mexican. I am Mexican. Even though I was born on the U.S. side of the border.

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- Sandra Cisneros “Caramelo”

"You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:59:41 -0400

“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”

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"As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:57:52 -0400

“As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.”

- Steve Maraboli (via thatkindofwoman)

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Thu, 16 May 2013 13:56:07 -0400

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"Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:50:23 -0400

“Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?”

- Eugene O’Neill (via farewell-kingdom)

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Wed, 15 May 2013 17:10:32 -0400

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self...."

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:32:57 -0400

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.”

- Aldous Huxley (via petrinecross)

"He found her most beautiful not when she was all fancied up, but when she wasn’t. When she was lying..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:30:43 -0400

“He found her most beautiful not when she was all fancied up, but when she wasn’t. When she was lying on the carpet, her hair all a mess, laughing about something that had happened years ago. When she wasn’t trying to impress anyone and taken down that wall that she had built for most people. That’s when he couldn’t take his eyes off of her.”

"I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore."

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:40:56 -0400

“I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.”

- Kurt Vonnegut (via thatkindofwoman)

"What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with."

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:40:48 -0400

“What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.”

- Robert Brault (via thatkindofwoman)

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Mon, 13 May 2013 23:32:08 -0400

humansofnewyork: When the world gets tough, a girl’s gotta keep...

Fri, 10 May 2013 12:32:39 -0400

humansofnewyork:

When the world gets tough, a girl’s gotta keep on pushin’.

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Thu, 09 May 2013 13:08:11 -0400

I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near...

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:20:52 -0400

I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. — Stephen Jay Gould.

"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness."

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:17:40 -0400

“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.”

- Yousuf Karsh (via thatkindofwoman)

You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack...

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:16:20 -0400

You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.