Hybridity Keeps Me From Being Rigid About

Hybridity Keeps Me From Being Rigid About Most Things. It Has Taught Me To Appreciate The Contradictions In The World And In My Life. I Scavenge From The Best.

We Didn't Have Television Until I Was About Eight Years Old, So It Was Either The Movies Or Radio. A Lot Of Radio Drama. That Was Our Television, You Know. We Had To Use Our Imagination. So It Was Really Those Two Things, And The Comics, That I Immersed Myself In As A Child.

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.

My Identity Is Linked To My Grandmother, Who's Pure Filipino, As Pure As You Can Probably Get. And That Shaped My Imagination. So That's How I Identify.

Everything Matters. Time Is Precious.