Soy Xicana, brown, proud and powerful. Hear me roar, see me pounce. Culture, education and family are essential to my existence. I will not forget my past because I will not forfeit my future.
I believe that life is about power; the outcome of each struggle is determined by the degree of power we are willing to concede. I do not concede when it comes to the integrity of culture, family and education, but the rest is another story. Issues relating to love, friendship and happiness--all reasons life is worth so make for life's challenges. I am on a voracious search for purity because I believe life can be fluid if we learn to distinguish between the tainted and the tarnished. The tarnished may seem uglier than the tainted, but the tarnished can be polished and continually nurtured back to its inherent brilliance. The tainted is what it is, and the attractive exterior only conceals true character.I believe that a person's identity is a mix of how they perceive themselves and how others perceive them. This is where people write what they want other people to think of them. I want you to think I'm extraordinarily intelligent, refreshingly witty, mysteriously sensual and remarkably kind. Unfortunately, I'm real, like J-Lo without the money, boot-tay and talent (ahem) and most days I'm not all of those things at the same time. I have my blonde moments, my betty la fea moments and my scrooge moments, yet with or without the adjectives, I am all of those things when I want to be and I love that I have that power."; ..
