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Top 15 Elaine Castillo Quotes (2025 Update)

Elaine Castillo Quote: “You’ve been foreign all your life. When you finally leave, all you’re hoping for is a more bearable kind of foreignness.”

1. “You’ve been foreign all your life. When you finally leave, all you’re hoping for is a more bearable kind of foreignness.”

— Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo Quote: “Baggage means no matter how far you go, no matter how many times you immigrate, there are countries in you you’ll never leave.”

2. “Baggage means no matter how far you go, no matter how many times you immigrate, there are countries in you you’ll never leave.”

— Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo Quote: “You know what it’s like to have a fate; you also know what it’s like to escape one.”

3. “You know what it’s like to have a fate; you also know what it’s like to escape one.”

— Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo Quote: “You don’t know that you’re going to love him. and that you won’t be able to differentiate this love for him from your devouring hunger to be recognized.”

4. “You don’t know that you’re going to love him. and that you won’t be able to differentiate this love for him from your devouring hunger to be recognized.”

— Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo Quote: “White people always thought they were full of toxins, so you could make a lot of money just by claiming to be able to remove them.”

5. “White people always thought they were full of toxins, so you could make a lot of money just by claiming to be able to remove them.”

— Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo Quote: “There are mercies, and there are mercies.”

6. “There are mercies, and there are mercies.”

— Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo Quote: “When she turned her head back to look at Rosalyn, she saw that Rosalyn had been studying her for longer than she’d been aware, arms around her knees, the gaze alert and considering. She looked at Hero like she’d looked at her this way a million times before and would do so a million times more; like she was looking at something she was used to but not tired of, something she could trace on paper with her eyes closed.”

7. “When she turned her head back to look at Rosalyn, she saw that Rosalyn had been studying her for longer than she’d been aware, arms around her knees, the gaze alert and considering. She looked at Hero like she’d looked at her this way a million times before and would do so a million times more; like she was looking at something she was used to but not tired of, something she could trace on paper with her eyes closed.”

— Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo Quote: “This was – small talk, Hero thought to herself. Though why people called it small, she didn’t know. The effort it scraped out of her felt immense, exhausting, like she should have studied for days beforehand just to be ready for it, like she’d need to sleep a dreamless sleep all night just to recover from it.”

8. “This was – small talk, Hero thought to herself. Though why people called it small, she didn’t know. The effort it scraped out of her felt immense, exhausting, like she should have studied for days beforehand just to be ready for it, like she’d need to sleep a dreamless sleep all night just to recover from it.”

— Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo Quote: “Willful misreading is a violence. To warp the history of a place to serve one vision of the past – and therefore, preserve a specific vision of the present and future – is an obscenity, and yet we live in obscenities like this every day.”

9. “Willful misreading is a violence. To warp the history of a place to serve one vision of the past – and therefore, preserve a specific vision of the present and future – is an obscenity, and yet we live in obscenities like this every day.”

— Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo Quote: “Our practice taught me most of all to read like a free, mysterious person who was encountering free, mysterious things; to value the profound privacy and irregularity of my own thinking; to spend time in my head and the heads of others, and to see myself shimmer in many worlds – to let many worlds shimmer, lively, in me.”

10. “Our practice taught me most of all to read like a free, mysterious person who was encountering free, mysterious things; to value the profound privacy and irregularity of my own thinking; to spend time in my head and the heads of others, and to see myself shimmer in many worlds – to let many worlds shimmer, lively, in me.”

— Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo Quote: “You don’t ever really stop having a song. It’s easier to stop having a person than to stop having a song.”

11. “You don’t ever really stop having a song. It’s easier to stop having a person than to stop having a song.”

— Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo Quote: “When white readers claim to be made uncomfortable – as many I heard from claimed – by the presence of something like untranslated words in fiction, what they’re really saying is: I have always been the expected reader. A reader like this is used to the practice of reading being one that may performatively challenge them, much the way a safari guides a tourist through the “wilderness” – but ultimately always prioritizes their comfort and understanding.”

12. “When white readers claim to be made uncomfortable – as many I heard from claimed – by the presence of something like untranslated words in fiction, what they’re really saying is: I have always been the expected reader. A reader like this is used to the practice of reading being one that may performatively challenge them, much the way a safari guides a tourist through the “wilderness” – but ultimately always prioritizes their comfort and understanding.”

— Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo Quote: “I’ve very often seen successful people of color framing their experiences of being the only person of color in their classrooms as narratives about struggle, rather than also being narratives about class and power;.”

13. “I’ve very often seen successful people of color framing their experiences of being the only person of color in their classrooms as narratives about struggle, rather than also being narratives about class and power;.”

— Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo Quote: “A name had a lifespan like anything else.”

14. “A name had a lifespan like anything else.”

— Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo Quote: “As for loving America or not loving America, those aren’t your problems, either. Your word for love is survival.”

15. “As for loving America or not loving America, those aren’t your problems, either. Your word for love is survival.”

— Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo Quote: “So then tell me. If Roni came to you now and said, Ate Hero, ako ang sira? Am I sira? Then? Anong sasabihin mo sa kanya? What would you say to her?”

16. “So then tell me. If Roni came to you now and said, Ate Hero, ako ang sira? Am I sira? Then? Anong sasabihin mo sa kanya? What would you say to her?”

— Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo Quote: “As for loving America or not loving America, those aren’t your problems, either. Your word for love is survival. Everything else is a story that isn’t about you.”

17. “As for loving America or not loving America, those aren’t your problems, either. Your word for love is survival. Everything else is a story that isn’t about you.”

— Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo Quote: “So that means you can’t remember the last time someone told you take care of yourself in your own language.”

18. “So that means you can’t remember the last time someone told you take care of yourself in your own language.”

— Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo Quote: “When artists bemoan the rise of political correctness in our cultural discourse, what they’re really bemoaning is the rise of this unexpected reader. They’re bemoaning the arrival of someone who does not read them the way they expect – often demand – to be read; often someone who has been framed in their work and in their lives as an object, not as a subject.”

19. “When artists bemoan the rise of political correctness in our cultural discourse, what they’re really bemoaning is the rise of this unexpected reader. They’re bemoaning the arrival of someone who does not read them the way they expect – often demand – to be read; often someone who has been framed in their work and in their lives as an object, not as a subject.”

— Elaine Castillo

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