I also identify as a Latin person, a per... by Jessica Hagedorn | We Heart Quotes

Author poet playwright Blood Filipino-American

I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Other quotes by Jessica Hagedorn

Writing Music Film

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

- Jessica Hagedorn

Now Being

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 of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Feeling Being

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

Movies Men Women Now Film

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Time

Everything matters. Time is precious.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Society

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

- Jessica Hagedorn

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