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Gina Apostol
7 quotes
“I write in English because your country raped mine.”
Gina Apostol (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our multiple languages are our form of existence, deep and mired in Filipino reality.”
Gina Apostol (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The essence of a country like the Philippines is that it seems to exist in translation—a series of textual mediations must be unraveled in order to reveal who or what it is.”
Gina Apostol (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Philippines... has made art in English from seeds of violence.”
Gina Apostol (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sea is a memory. It is mesmerising. Its beauty is intolerable. What it buries is vaster than what it reveals.”
Gina Apostol (born 1963) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Insurrecto (2018)
“Citizenship to me is not a real thing, but art is. But it's the mirage that kills.”
Gina Apostol (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We never see ourselves as others see us. Even in the mirror, we see ourselves backward.”
Gina Apostol (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source