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Gina Apostol Quotes

born 1963

Gina Apostol (born 1963) s a Filipino-born writer based in the United States. She is the author of five novels, among them Insurrecto, named by Publishers Weekly one of the Ten Best Books of 2018, and her most recent, La Tercera, selected an Editors’ Choice of the New York Times.

Random Gina Apostol quote

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Our multiple languages are our form of existence, deep and mired in Filipino reality.

I write in English because your country raped mine.

Citizenship to me is not a real thing, but art is. But it's the mirage that kills.

We never see ourselves as others see us. Even in the mirror, we see ourselves backward.

The sea is a memory. It is mesmerising. Its beauty is intolerable. What it buries is vaster than what it reveals.

Insurrecto (2018)

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.

The Philippines... has made art in English from seeds of violence.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gina Apostol (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.