Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes

• América es blanca y negra y latina y asiática. América es mixta. América es inmigrante.

  José Antonio Vargas

  Blanco, América, Negro

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• 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.

  José Antonio Vargas

  Country, Character, Waiting

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• 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.'

  José Antonio Vargas

  Battle, Identity, Culture

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• Juntos, las personas indocumentadas como yo y nuestros familiares, amigos y aliados esperamos una reforma migratoria más amplia, no solo para los Dreamers, sino también para los trabajadores indocumentados de todas las edades y orígenes que contribuyen a nuestra seguridad económica y prosperidad.

  José Antonio Vargas

  People, Waiting, Dreamer

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• A broken immigration system means broken families means broken lives. That's what is at stake.

  José Antonio Vargas

  Mean, Broken, Immigration

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• You have to stand for something bigger than yourself.

  José Antonio Vargas

  Bigger, Stand For Something, Something Bigger Than Yourself

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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

  José Antonio Vargas

  People, Doe, Calling

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• I am not the 'illegal' you think I am, and immigration is not what you think it is.

  José Antonio Vargas

  Thinking, Immigration, Illegal

  "Jose Antonio Vargas: Why I made 'Documented'" by Jose Antonio Vargas, www.cnn.com. March 13, 2014.

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• If I could, I'd go city by city, county by county, town by town, and talk to people to explain to them what immigration is really about - that this is not about me, this is not about us, this is not about us taking something from you. This is not about us being a threat to you. This is not about Democrat or Republican, and this is not really about border security. But in some ways our politics, and in many ways our politicians, have gotten in the way.

  José Antonio Vargas

  People, Immigration, Republican

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• To be in America illegally is actually a civil offense and not a criminal one.

  José Antonio Vargas

  America, Criminals, Offense

  Fuente: www.today.com

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• I remember the first thing I did when I found out I was illegal was to get rid of my thick Filipino accent. I figured that I had to talk white and talk black at the same time, like Charlie Rose and Dr. Dre. If I can talk white and black then no one is ever going to think that I'm "illegal."

  José Antonio Vargas

  Thinking, White, Rose

  "A Minute With: Filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas on being 'undocumented'". Interview with Eric Kelsey, www.reuters.com. June 25, 2014.

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• The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

  José Antonio Vargas

  Paper, Pieces, Reason

  "A Minute With: Filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas on being 'undocumented'". Interview with Eric Kelsey, www.reuters.com. June 25, 2014.

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• 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.

  José Antonio Vargas

  Immigration, Arguing, Debate

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• I'm not excusing the illegal act. I am here illegally. I'm here illegally, without authorization. That's a fact. That's nothing you can call the Orwellian cops about. But I am a human being, so therefore I am not illegal. That's also a fact.

  José Antonio Vargas

  Cop, Orwellian

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  José Antonio Vargas

  People, Call Me, I Can

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Independientemente de la política, el cambio en la narrativa de la inmigración está directamente relacionado con el hecho de que disponemos de nuevas tecnologías que están permitiendo a la gente hablar entre sí y contar sus propias historias y organizarse.

  José Antonio Vargas

  Independent, Technology, People

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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

  José Antonio Vargas

  Tattooed, Illegal, Foreheads

  "A Minute With: Filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas on being 'undocumented'". Interview with Eric Kelsey, www.reuters.com. June 25, 2014.

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

  José Antonio Vargas

  Media, People, Narrative

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• The greatest gift that we have as human beings is our ability to empathize. That's why I think personal stories matter so much. That's someone's mom. That's someone's daughter. That's someone's son.

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  Mom, Daughter, Son

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• The hardest stories we tell are always about ourselves. How do you explain that you have been missing your mother for 20 years? I don't know how to explain that to you. I wasn't even sure I wanted to film that, because I don't know how I felt about it. I didn't want to put her through it, and I frankly wasn't ready. Because since I was 16, I just had created my own life for myself, you know? I left when I was 12. I'm 32. And I have gotten to know my mother more through editing her and looking and watching and editing her footage, you know.

  José Antonio Vargas

  Mother, Missing, Film

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Like other undocumented people in this country, I want a green card, and I want a driver's license, and I want a passport. What, to me, is the immigration bill? It's a green card, a driver's license, and a passport. That's what it's about to me, tangibly. That I could see my mom. That I could drive. Is there anything more American than driving? That I could get a green card and be able to - right now, I'm just like freelancing and working as an independent contractor. It's hilarious. I'm unhirable.

  José Antonio Vargas

  Mom, Country, Independent

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• 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.

  José Antonio Vargas

  Mean, Reality, Long

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• Siento que la gente espera que les dé respuestas fáciles, pero en realidad no hay respuestas fáciles. Sólo hay preguntas más difíciles. Y a menos que lleguemos a la parte de las preguntas más difíciles, de lo que realmente trata esta conversación... por supuesto que quiero que se apruebe una ley de inmigración. Quiero que la gente tenga carné de conducir, permiso de trabajo, tarjeta verde y pasaporte. Pero esta conversación trasciende este proyecto de ley. No vamos a tener una ley perfecta. Esto es política. Creo que mi trabajo es, en lugar de dar respuestas fáciles, pedir a la gente que indague más.

  José Antonio Vargas

  Giving, Perfect, People

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• The DREAMers are the safe ones, right? It's okay to advocate for the DREAMers because they're the English-speaking, college-educated ones, right? It's so interesting that I set out to document DREAMers, but what I ended up doing was actually documenting the experience of, the reality and truth of, the moms and the parents.

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  Mom, Reality, Interesting

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• There's always to me a universality - one of the things I learned early on as a journalist and a writer is that there's a universality in specifics. The more specific you get, the more universal it can be.

  José Antonio Vargas

  Periodista

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