I like Q&A's better than articles sometimes because I feel like I'd rather hear somebody actually talk or wrestle with.

The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to be some politically correct, Orwellian, kind of like "you're telling me how to write about...?"

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

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

Immigration is by far the most controversial yet least understood issue in America. Frankly, given the way we're talking about immigration, given the emphasis, the overemphasis on border security, I would argue that we're not on the same page when we debate this issue. We're doing far too much debating and not enough conversing.

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.

One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me: advocate, activist, gay, Filipino, undocumented person, gay person with an Asian face and Latino name.