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"Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer."
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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."
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"Children see beauty in everything."
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"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."
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"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."
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"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."
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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
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"Children are great observers."
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"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."
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"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."
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"He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit."
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"There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs."
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"Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains."
Life

"Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film."
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"I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up."
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"Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot."
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"We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child."
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"Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best."
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"Everything matters. Time is precious."
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"Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer."
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"I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough."
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