Carlos Bulosan famous quotes

The human heart is bigger than the world.
-- Carlos Bulosan

#Heart #World #Bigger

The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us all. The false grandeur and security, the unfulfilled promises and illusory power, the number of the dead and those about to die, will charge the forces of our courage and determination. The old world will die so that the new world will be born with less sacrifice and agony on the living ...
-- Carlos Bulosan

#Determination #Inspiration #Sacrifice

Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to glorify, to dignify man... Since any social system is forced to change to another by concrete economic forces, its art changes also to be recharged, reshaped, and revitalized by the new conditions... The making of a genuine artist or writer is not mysterious. It is not the work of Divine Providence. Social conditions, history, and the people's struggle are the factors behind it.
-- Carlos Bulosan

#Art #Believe #Struggle

America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America is the illiterate immigrant who is ashamed that the world of books and intellectual opportunities are closed to him. We are all that nameless foreigner, that homeless refugee, that hungry boy, that illiterate immigrant and that lynched black body. All of us, from the first Adams to the last Filipino, native born or alien, educated or illiterate-We are America!
-- Carlos Bulosan

#Jobs #Book #Boys

Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living.
-- Carlos Bulosan

#Moon #Men #Light

I came to know that in many ways it was a crime to be Filipino in California .... I feel like a criminal running away from a crime I did not commit. And this crime is that I am a Filipino in America.
-- Carlos Bulosan

#Running #California #America

The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.

No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.

I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

Create the space and a bigger life happens

Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself.

Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.