Filipino Identity Quotes & Sayings

The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity. — Nick Joaquin

Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino; after 1565 we can be nothing but Filipino. — Nick Joaquin

Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice. — Jessica Hagedorn The Gangster Of Love

This is how you get unstuck. You reach. — Cheryl Strayed

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify. — Jessica Hagedorn

People say that when you return to the place where you grew up, it always seems smaller than you remember ... but I don't know if it was because I had built it up in my memories or I had gotten bigger. Maybe both. — Jeannette Walls

Having met other immigrants like myself in America, I can say that a great number of us came to our same "Oriental" identity in a similar fashion. We arrived in the United States as Japanese or Korean or Filipino, but over time we became Orientals. — Alex Tizon

For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.' — Jose Antonio Vargas

Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which I love him. — Anne Lamott

He needed to crawl inside of her, share her skin, bury himself deep so she could pour the sun over him and steer him away from the shadows always clawing pieces out of him. — Christine Feehan

Tell you now children - you're all gonna die. No hand stamp reentry, no refund, no lie. - Found written on a bathroom stall in Disneyland, June 6th, 1988 — Seth Grahame-Smith

Think I'll win. Could be big. — Bob Dole