Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.
I'm really proud to be Filipino. Filipinos are really supportive, and I want to thank all of them. I love them!
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos.
Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino; after 1565 we can be nothing but Filipino.
And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
I'm a quarter Chinese and three-quarter Filipino. I don't look Filipino; I look more Chinese or Korean. It actually works in my favor: in terms of roles, it gives me a broader canvas.
This is the difference between the Spanish advent and the American; that the technical revolution provoked by the first produced the Filipino, while the cultural upheaval provoked by the second merely helped us to become more aware of this Filipinone...
Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return, the unquestioning willingness to lose everything, even if that loss is as something as precious as life ...
To THOSE who want to lift this nation from the dungheap of history, the past does not matter — only the present, the awareness of the deadening rot which surrounds and suffocates us, and what we must do to vanquish it.
I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.
I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.
The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the ne...
I was shocked at the revelation of her vaulting ambition, her greed. I should have loathed her or, knowing what kind of a person she was, I should have realized the futility of any personal attachment, the impossibility of its maturing into something...
My mother is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds.
All I know is that I'm proud to be Filipino.
I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.
I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.
I can't do everything alone. I need all Filipinos to unify.
It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
