Quotes
“America came to him in a public ward in the Los Angeles County Hospital while around him men died gasping for their last bit of air, and he learned that while America could be cruel it could also be immeasurably kind…For Carlos Bulosan no lifetime could be long enough in which to explain to America that no man could destroy his faith in it again. He wanted to contribute something toward the final fulfillment of America. So he wrote this book that holds the bitterness of his own blood.” New York Times
“To resist the call to heartlessness, let’s heed the call to idealism expressed by Bulosan in America Is in the Heart." Seattle Times
“People interested in driving from America the scourge of intolerance should read Mr. Bulosan’s autobiography. They should read it that they may draw from the anger it will arouse in them and the determination to bring to an end the vicious nonsense of racism.” Saturday Review of Literature
“[Bulosan’s] call to action resonates with the same urgency today as it did seven decades ago.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly
“The premier text of the Filipino-American experience.” Greg Castilla, author of Struggles from Both Shores