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“When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.”
― Paula Danziger

“Because how dare we write our own stories, in our own voices?’ CaZZ answers.

‘True that,’ Tanya says.

‘Banning our books would be their way of erasing us, of making us — and the world we live in — invisible,’ CaZZ says.”
― R. Zamora Linmark, The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart

“Even someone like me felt utang na loob, that impossible to quantify sense of indebtedness and gratitude, to the people who’d raised me. But where was that magical line between selfishness and independence? Between my family and myself?”
― Mia P. Manansala, Arsenic and Adobo

“We have been marching for the last one hundred and fifty years. We sacrifice our individual liberties, and sometimes we fail and suffer. Sometimes we divide into separate groups and our methods conflict, though we all aim at one common goal. The significant thing is that we march on without turning back. What we want is peace not violence, We know that we thrive and prosper only in peace.”
― Carlos Bulosan