Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Carlos Bulosan

Born: November 24, 1913
Died: September 11, 1956 (aged 42)
Bio: Carlos Sampayan Bulosan was an English-language Filipino novelist and poet who spent most of his life in the United States. His best-known work today is the semi-autobiographical America Is in the Heart, but he first gained fame for his 1943 essay on The Freedom from Want.
Known for:
- America Is in the Heart (1946)
- The laughter of my father (1944)
- If you want to know what we are
- The cry and the dedication
- On becoming Filipino