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Jessica Hagedorn
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“War is predicted / in five years / ten years / any day now / I always thought / it was already happening.”
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“Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.”
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“[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.”
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“Writers and scholars have emerged in recent times (some familiar, some new) to continue to challenge the notion of a literature that encompasses the world — and reaffirms our existence in it. It is a multicultural vision that embraces and includes our shrinking universe; it is a multicultural vision that the white man fears and a vision that the rest of us can celebrate.”
Jessica Hagedorn, Philippine-born U.S. writer
(1949)
Full name: Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn.