Bulosan Quotes

#1. I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.

Joan Collins

#2. I was just after Generation X. I missed the John Hughes movies; I had to watch them on TBS.

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#3. When the kingdom of light increases, the kingdom of darkness reduces

Sunday Adelaja

#4. If he had a little more brains he would be a half-wit.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#5. The human heart is bigger than the world.

Carlos Bulosan

#6. Accept loss forever Be submissive to everything, open, listening No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge Be in love with your life

Natalie Goldberg

#7. We didn't create the culture of film. We certainly market it better than anyone in the world, but film could have happened anywhere. It's not distinctly American, as witnessed by the fact that there are film communities throughout the world that tell stories to their own cultural liking.

David Simon

#8. The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.

Jhonen Vasquez

#9. Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only - having no desire to teach.

James Whistler

#10. 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

#11. We ... recognize the forces which have been trying to falsify American history - the forces which drive away many Americans to a corner of compromise with those who would distort the ideals of men that died for freedom.

Carlos Bulosan

#12. Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living.

Carlos Bulosan

#13. I think I'd better take some of Gramps' sleeping pills, I'm never going to be able to sleep without them. In fact I think I'd better take a supply of them. He's got plenty, and I'm sure I'll have a few bad nights at home before I get straightened out. Oh, I hope it's just a few.

Beatrice Sparks

#14. Yes, I will be a writer and make all of you live again in my words.

Carlos Bulosan

#15. You ... see us ... and you think you know us, but our outward guise is more deceptive than our history.

Carlos Bulosan