Quote by Ambeth Ocampo Download Open image ““Filipinos have an aversion to blank walls.”” — Ambeth Ocampo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty. — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
“We may be half-Filipino, but the other half is pure, unadulterated racist.” — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
“Truly the Filipino rises to his finest self during trying times, the more trying the times, the finer the rising. Or it is in… — Conrado De Quiros Copy Share Image
“ordinary people can never fall over the walls, because they never dare climb high enough to see what is beyond the walls.” — B. Traven Copy Share Image
“As long as we build walls around our cities, we make desperate people who want to come in more resolute to bring them down.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“You don’t like what you see out your window, you put up a wall.” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Life is better without the walls, everyone agrees. Still, sometimes I'm afraid of the outside world, and every so often in my private thoughts… — Patrick Carman Copy Share Image
“First World countries may have great infrastructure, material comfort and modernity, but these cannot compare with the way the homeland speaks to a Filipino’s… — Jim Paredes Copy Share Image
“I have spent most of my adult life in a ghetto among countless other outsiders who have also learned how to talk through the… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
“Even a quick reading of Rizal's trial will prove that those who take Constantino's works uncritically are likewise guilty of "Veneration Without Understanding." Since… — Ambeth Ocampo Copy Share Image
“I was to discover that like the overcoat that snugly wraps Rizal in all his statues and photographs, Rizal is obscured by countless myths… — Ambeth Ocampo Copy Share Image
“We make Rizal in our own image and likeness. Our image of Rizal is usually formed or deformed in school through numerous biographies with… — Ambeth Ocampo Copy Share Image
“Mahirap ngayon ang educational system. They're out for the degree, not knowledge.” — Ambeth Ocampo Copy Share Image
“If we cannot agree on what was important yesterday, what more on events that happened a hundred or three hundred years ago? The point… — Ambeth Ocampo Copy Share Image
“Doreen Fernandez' foreword to "Rizal Without the Overcoat": His essays remind us that history need not and should not be relegated to schoolbooks and… — Ambeth Ocampo Copy Share Image
“Rizal's greatest misfortune is being national hero of the Philippines.” — Ambeth Ocampo Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?” — Ambeth Ocampo Copy Share Image
“Rizal" is a compulsory course in school, but few teachers make Rizal's novels interesting. If students are taught to enjoy Rizal's works as literature… — Ambeth Ocampo Copy Share Image
