Filipino Quotes

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  • We have blacks and whites, Jews and Arabs, Serbs and Croats, and Filipinos and Vietnamese here. At the end of the day, everyone is each other's brother.

  • Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being a Filipino means having as rich and noble a heritage of language, culture, patriotism and heroic deeds as any nation on earth. Let us teach a steadfast faith in Divine Providence, a stable family institution, the unhampered enjoyment of civil liberties, the advantages of constitutional government, the potentials of a rich and spacious land.

  • The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.

    Identity   Asking   Today  
  • Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

    "Homage to Imelda's Shoes". news.bbc.co.uk. February 16, 2001.
  • The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

    Teamwork   Power   Focus  
  • Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines. From the current projection of 3.3 million tourist arrivals in 2010, our aim is to eventually attract 6 million tourists. In the process, we expect to create 3 million jobs in the next six years.

    Jobs   Islands   Years  
  • I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.

    Beef   Soup   Chickens  
    Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.
  • The true Filipino is a decolonized Filipino.

  • If it's needed for me to have a drop of Filipino blood, I am willing to get it from Makati Med. My heart really belongs here.

    Heart   Blood   Filipino  
  • My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an upside-down planet, pineapple-cratered. Though I was born here, I came from the other side of the looking glass, as did Alice, though not alone like Alice. Downtown I saw lots of brown people. Old men on benches. Winks from Filipinos. Sikhs who worked in the fields were the most mysterious brown men, their heads wrapped in turbans. They were the rose men. They looked like roses.

    Men   Glasses   Rose  
    Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.13, Penguin
  • There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.

    Weed   Women   Marijuana  
  • My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.

    Mother   Father   Names  
    "Mark Dacascos Discusses Brotherhood Of The Wolf". Interview with Scott B., www.ign.com. January 12, 2002.
  • I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.

    Country   Strong   People  
  • 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.'

  • My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.

    Parent   Tables   Dinner  
  • [Michelle Malkin] has been supporting a party which includes most of the idiots in this country who would judge her entirely and exclusively on her [Filipino] appearance.

    Country   Party   Judging  
  • My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people.

    The Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 1998.
  • Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing.

    Writing   Iowa   Creative  
    "Where poetry and music divide" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.
  • But lots of emerging racial tensions in California have nothing to do with whites: Filipinos and Samoans are fighting it out in San Francisco high schools. Merced is becoming majority Mexican and Cambodian. They may be fighting in gangs right now, but I bet they are also learning each other's language.

    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • I remember the first thing I did when I found out I was illegal was to get rid of my thick Filipino accent. I figured that I had to talk white and talk black at the same time, like Charlie Rose and Dr. Dre. If I can talk white and black then no one is ever going to think that I'm "illegal."

    Thinking   White   Rose  
    "A Minute With: Filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas on being 'undocumented'". Interview with Eric Kelsey, www.reuters.com. June 25, 2014.
  • We must work with the Australians, the South Koreans, the Japanese and the Filipinos to contain China. And then we must ask for their support and their help with North Korea. Because believe it or not, China is as concerned about Kim Jong-Un as we are.

    Believe   Korea   Support  
    Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.
  • Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary

    Pope Francis (2016). “Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests”, p.74, BookBaby
  • All I know is that I'm proud to be Filipino.

    Proud   Filipino   Knows  
    "Nonito Donaire Q & A". The Ring Interview, www.ringtv.com.
  • I am so proud and so happy to be Filipino.

    Proud   Filipino  
  • I came to know that in many ways it was a crime to be Filipino in California .... I feel like a criminal running away from a crime I did not commit. And this crime is that I am a Filipino in America.

    Carlos Bulosan (1973). “America is In the Heart: A Personal History”, p.7, University of Washington Press
  • Hundreds of barefoot Filipinos marched on the roads through the Philippines carrying heavy wooden crosses and whipping their backs until they bled to prepare for Easter. Call me old-fashioned but I just like coloring the eggs.

  • I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!

    Mean   Musical   Band  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans.

  • One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me: advocate, activist, gay, Filipino, undocumented person, gay person with an Asian face and Latino name.

    Gay   Names   People  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • The only thing I can really offer the Filipino people is my sincerity.

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