'I wouldn't be questioned [about my heritage] if I looked more stereotypically Latina. Whatever that is. All I know is, no one can tell me I'm not a proud Latina woman.'
magazine,"There are a lot of people who have this mixed background that are in this gray zone. A lot of people think,But it’s not like that at all. It’s actually the exact opposite. What we’re trying to do is educate people to know what that feels like so they'll never make someone feel like that ever again. Which is a hard thing to do. Because no one can see what we see, and no one can grow up with what we grew up with.
During an interview with, she said,"I see a lot of incredible Afro-Latinas working, but I’m not sure that there are enough stories told that speak to that particular experience. I’m really interested in telling stories like my grandmother’s. My grandmother came from Panama — from Colón — to the United States for an education when she was a young woman in her 20s.""She met my grandfather, who’s a Black man from Oklahoma. They had my aunt, and then they had my father.
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