Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

Press freedom is the foundation of the rights of all Filipinos to the truth.

Us Filipinos love Christmas so much that we have the longest Christmas season in the world.

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

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

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.