I think I've always been paranoid.

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.

To find the truth, try to follow the Socratic method. Just don’t forget to follow your intuition and imagination.

God has buried your leadership roles in your gifting. To take the lead, you got to unzip the gift bag. It’s your responsible to make it happen!

Follow your dreams and make them happen!

History shows: Whenever people try to pull you down, you will reach peaks of success. You just need the ability to ignore.

I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship.

An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

I will veto every single beer, um, bill with earmarks.

We [Libyans] support the Palestinian resistance, and all the world supports this. We support their just cause, but we are against terrorism.