Clock Quote by Jessica Hagedorn

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.…

— Jessica Hagedorn

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's…

— Jessica Hagedorn

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

— Jessica Hagedorn

The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that

— Jessica Hagedorn

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…

— Jessica Hagedorn

I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother…

— Jessica Hagedorn

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

— Jessica Hagedorn

Writers and scholars have emerged in recent times (some familiar, some new) to continue to challenge the notion of a literature that encompasses the…

— Jessica Hagedorn

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

— Jessica Hagedorn

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.

— Jessica Hagedorn

It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started…

— Jessica Hagedorn

“The Suffering Pilipino: We Pinoys suffer collectively from a cultural inferiority complex. We are doomed by our need for assimilation into the West and…

— Jessica Hagedorn