Filipino Quotes · Page 3

My mother is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds.

— Cassie Ventura

“My nose does not look like Barbie's nose and that's perfectly fine.”

— The Thoughtful Beast

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

— Jessica Sanchez

I am pure Filipino; both my parents are Filipino.

— Jacob Batalon

It is very important for me to give forward in helping out every Filipino.

— apl.de.ap

The true Filipino is a decolonized Filipino.

— Renato Constantino

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

— Lea Salonga

We Filipino can compete here at the Olympics. We can do it.

— Hidilyn Diaz

How often, really, do you get a Filipino story line in a show? Not very often. I can't think of any.

— Reggie Lee

A lot of Filipinas are really into fashion, and there are so many noted Filipino designers around the world.

— Pia Wurtzbach

“Hindi achievement ang tawag ko sa gano'n. Suwertihan lang 'yong ipinanganak ka nang maganda. Ang achievement e something you work hard to…

— Lualhati Bautista

Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankindMost marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers.

— Harry J. Anslinger

I'm open to do a Filipino drama if I like the role or if the plot is attractive to me.

— Lee Min-ho

I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!

— June Millington

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

— Shay Mitchell

I'm really happy to see Filipino cuisine starting to really take hold outside of the Pinoy community.

— Anthony Bourdain

The immigrant experience in 'Ilustrado' was only a small part of what I intended to be a broader look at the Filipino…

— Miguel Syjuco

But lots of emerging racial tensions in California have nothing to do with whites: Filipinos and Samoans are fighting it out in…

— Richard Rodriguez

One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me:…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

I remember the first thing I did when I found out I was illegal was to get rid of my thick Filipino…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

Depictions of race have changed so much since, like, the '50s, where white people just played every race. But the pendulum swings…

— Dante Basco

Hundreds of barefoot Filipinos marched on the roads through the Philippines carrying heavy wooden crosses and whipping their backs until they bled…

— Jay Leno

If you're Filipino, you're the beaner of the Asian community 'cause you're just like us. You're indigenous people that got banged by…

— Carlos Mencia

As our country bled . . . its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order,…

— Corazon Aquino

This visit is meant to express my closeness to our brothers and sisters who endured the suffering, loss and devastation caused by…

— Pope Francis

I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren't too many Hawaiian-Filipino…

— Nicole Scherzinger

My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an…

— Richard Rodriguez

No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and…

— Jose Rizal

You go to a lot of small communities in rural Alberta and you'll find a degree of diversity that probably hasn't existed…

— Jason Kenney

I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance and one night late it came to…

— William McKinley

Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.

— Reggie Lee

I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be…

— Lalaine

I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning.

— Lea Salonga

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

— Imelda Marcos

I'm really proud to be Filipino. Filipinos are really supportive, and I want to thank all of them. I love them!

— Charice Pempengco

“Ang relationship, parang flappy bird... Hindi mo ito pwedeng basta-basta nalang bitawan.”

— Prince Henry Chiong

I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans.

— Manuel L. Quezon

“Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino; after 1565 we can be nothing but Filipino.”

— Nick Joaquín

I just feel like a Filipina, a Filipino woman, and it just so happens that when I was growing up, I was…

— Catriona Gray

Filipino pride. I'm so excited, I'm just sending love to the Philippines. I know they've had a tough year and I just…

— Robert Lopez