I am not african. Africa is in me, but I cannot return.

I am not taína. Taíno is in me, but there is no way back.

I am not european. Europe lives in me, but I have no home there.

I am new. History made me. My first language was spanglish.

I was born at the crossroads
and I am whole.

–“Child of the Americas,”
Aurora Levins Morales

What best expresses the speaker’s point about a person’s identity as an American?