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

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'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.

Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.

We all carry success gene within us, but its manifestation is our responsibility.

It was more important for me to try, than to not have the chance at all.

By union the smallest states thrive by discord the greatest are destroyed.

Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.

Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.

To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.

Satan could make an "A" in my Systematic Theology course. He knows the information and knows that the information is true.