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

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.

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

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.

You are my flesh and blood and I have always doted on you, but right now I would have to say you deserve a haughty, ruined chit for your own and she deserves you.

Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas.

The road to the Super Bowl runs through Pittsburgh, sooner or later you've got to go to Pittsburgh.

People who work to bring about perfection see work as an extension of themselves. The point is to do a good job. That will empower you. To do a poor job will make you weaker.

You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea what will happen or what won't happen.

I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them.

Women hold the power because we have the vaginas. If you're in a heterosexual relationship and you're a female, you win.

Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure.

Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.