“If memory is the thread of personal identity, history is the thread of community identity.”
“A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.”
“Community, Identity, Stability”
“For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.”
“The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.”
“Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history), the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation.”