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Film in many ways is very literal.
I think everyone deserves dignity.
I think I've always been paranoid.
I am more than an immigration activist.
To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.
You have to stand for something bigger than yourself.
I'm a gay, undocumented immigrant; I have to be optimistic.
I did not realize how broken I was until I saw how broken Mama was.
A broken immigration system means broken families and broken lives.
I found out that I was illegal when I was 16. I'm gay. I'm Filipino.
I always felt like I had the word "illegal" tattooed on my forehead.
I've done everything I've done in America with the limitations I have.
There isn't anybody I won't talk to about immigration - at least once.
I've been uncomfortable dealing with my identity since I was 16 years old.
Left-leaning bloggers have had a tremendous impact on the Democratic Party.
The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.
To be in America illegally is actually a civil offense and not a criminal one.
Everyone has an opinion when it comes to immigration - strong, intense opinions.
I am not the 'illegal' you think I am, and immigration is not what you think it is.
America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.
When people call me illegal, calling me illegal says more about you than it does about me.
I worked for 'The Chronicle' in San Francisco, and immigration is a big issue in that region.
A broken immigration system means broken families means broken lives. That's what is at stake.
To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.
I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.
My being gay is not a social issue; it's a fact. It's not something to be debated. It's a reality.
Undocumented people get arrested all the time. I get arrested, and it's front-page news. I feel guilt.
As a gay man, I think the role of culture is central to how you change politics - culture is politics.
I believe fundamentally in the kindness of the American people because I have been a beneficiary of it.
I think everybody could agree that our immigration system is broken. We have not told the truth about it.
A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think.
On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant.
I want to be as creatively disruptive as possible. I want to be radically transparent in a way that isn't showboating.
You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can.
Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.
I like Q&A's better than articles sometimes because I feel like I'd rather hear somebody actually talk or wrestle with.
I have no control whatsoever on how people perceive me from the Right or the Left. All I have control over is who I say I am.
I don't think there's any other issue out there that young people are more passionate, and more ahead in, than global warming.
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 grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity.
It's not my job to worry about how Left, Right will react to something. My job is, am I creating something that connects people? That's my job.
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.
As you watch 'Documented' on CNN, I ask you, my fellow Americans: What do you want to do with me? What do you want to do with us? How do you define American?
You have to do what you have to do. I wanted to work. I wanted to prove that I was worthy of being here... and I was gonna do whatever it took to prove that.
No amount of success - whatever that means, quote-unquote success - no amount of success replaces the reality of being separated from my family for this long.
In 2005, MTV Networks considered buying Facebook for seventy-five million dollars. Yahoo! and Microsoft soon offered much more. Zuckerberg turned them all down.
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.
As I graduated from public schools and started working in newsrooms, I told myself that I am only the 'illegal' that my own country has not bothered to get to know.
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.'
Facebook's privacy policies are confusing to many people, and the company has changed them frequently, almost always allowing more information to be exposed in more ways.