Miguel
Miguel
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth23 October 1985
CountryUnited States of America
fun play having-fun
I'm just trying to play my best and have fun.
opportunity nurse different
I dont see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.
honesty love-and-honesty
Love and honesty don't mix.
these-days kill-me justification
It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.
want human-condition angst
Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.
lost-love lost remembered
Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.
real character people
We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.
long-ago long not-alone
Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.
exercise should-have decision
Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.
demand good-things stem
Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it
regret night trying
When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.
believe years purpose
I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado.
powerful teaching iraq
Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.
men angry-man littles
Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.