Quotes About Dominicanness

Indio... was devoid of any semantic allusion to African heritage and would, thus, accord with their negrophobic definition of Dominicanness.

I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.