Nick Joaquín, Culture And History Quotes
The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.
Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.
Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to overcome it or just resign yourself to it.
When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil?
