At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there's so many stories out there waiting to be told. It's just a matter of who's out there listening.

America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

Citizenship to me is more than a piece of paper. Citizenship is also about character. I am an American. We're just waiting for our country to recognize it.

For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'

I am not the 'illegal' you think I am, and immigration is not what you think it is.

When people call me illegal, calling me illegal says more about you than it does about me.

To be in America illegally is actually a civil offense and not a criminal one.

You have to stand for something bigger than yourself.

I have no control over what people call me. The only thing I have control over is my work, and that's really all I can be judged on.

To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.

I always felt like I had the word "illegal" tattooed on my forehead.

Happiness is . . . appreciating what we have while having it!

Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine

It takes a million compliments to build you up and one insult to send it all crashing down.

The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage.

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I have scored against every team, every country, every defender in the world.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.

Man is greater than the gods.