We should be proud of our Afro-Indio culture. We must fight against racism because it is a tool used to divide us. - Denise Oliver-Velez

But the racism in the island, nobody wanted to deal with because I was told "no hay racismo en Puerto Rico." But that was not true. Color, caste, class, were major contradictions, even within left-wing political groups.

Our people are beautiful, Puerto Rican people have a revolutionary history, Puerto Rico is beautiful.

That last migration in 1947 spawned a generation who had one foot in the United States, and maybe they had dreams of Puerto Rico, but the reality of their existence was here.