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

The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.

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.

We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground