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“I told her we will not become the birds or the bees. We will become Hmong, and we will build a strong home that we will never leave and can always return to. We will not be lost and looking our whole lives through.”
― The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
― The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
“But only this-that people who are utterly ignorant will believe anything-which you certainly knew before.”
― Herland
― Herland
“I was madly in love with not so much what was there as with what I supposed to be there.”
― Herland
― Herland
“The Suffering Pilipino: We Pinoys suffer collectively from a cultural inferiority complex. We are doomed by our need for assimilation into the West and our own curious fatalism...He describes us as a complex nation of cynics, descendants of warring tribes which were baptized and colonized to death by Spaniards and Americans, as a nation betrayed and then united only by our hunger for glamour and our Hollywood dreams.”
― Dogeaters
― Dogeaters
“She wanted to keep the news to herself for now. Once she'd told someone else, it would all become so final, and then all hope of recovery would be lost. She vowed to herself that she would tell someone the moment she felt she could not longer bear it alone.”
― The Angel Maker
― The Angel Maker
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