Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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