66 Quotes About Filipino
- Author Bob Ong
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Nakayanan n'yang bumangon, hindi ko pagdududahan ang kakayahan n'yang lumipad.
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- Author The Thoughtful Beast
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I do not fear the sun darkening my skin. I fear colonialism damaging my self-worth with bleach.
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- Author Juan Miguel Sevilla
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It's funny how love can fit inside a brown cardboard box. With relationships, people often think that things pile up. But when it ends, they're surprised how few these things turn out to be. Or at least, how few things they are willing to let go of.
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- Author F. Sionil José
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Shit!" I shouted at him. "Now listen, my friend. The youth have no role. They have no jobs. They have no money. They are not in power and they do not make decisions. If there is going to be a war, they will be dumped into the army. And they will be killed like young men everywhere have been killed - whether or not they believe in the war. Having no role is their role.
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- Author The Thoughtful Beast
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I embrace and celebrate the color of my skin. Why should I reject the skin color that reflects the work my ancestors did tending to their harvests, creating homes for their families and protecting their lands?
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- Author The Thoughtful Beast
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My nose does not look like Barbie's nose and that's perfectly fine.
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- Author Khayri R.R. Woulfe
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English is a language, not a measure of intelligence. (Howard Gardner would argue the otherwise.) Filipino/Tagalog is a language, not a measure of patriotism.
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- Author Howard Zinn
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...the Anti-Imperialist League...carried on a long campaign to educate the American public about the horrors of the Philippine war and the evils of imperialism. It was...united in a common moral outrage at what was being done to the Filipinos in the name of freedom. Whatever their differences on other matters, they would all agree with William James's angry statement: 'God damn the U.S. for its vile conduct in the Philippine Isles'.
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- Author Danabelle Gutierrez
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My tongue was handed down to meby datus and katipuneros. The truth ismy mouth is a battlefield thatyou wouldn’t know how to fight in.
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