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" Left-leaning bloggers have had a tremendous impact on the Democratic Party. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Party
Democratic
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" I wasn't supposed to be walking with Mark Zuckerberg. I wasn't supposed to be interviewing Romney's sons. Why was I doing it? Because I wanted to survive. I wanted to live. I wanted to earn what it means to be an American. "
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American
Live
Survive
" When I was younger, I didn't understand how a mother could put her son on a plane and just say, you know, 'Here you go, I'll see you later.' And she never followed, she never came. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
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Son
" Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did. "
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You
People
" Film in many ways is very literal. "
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Very
Ways
" In 2005, MTV Networks considered buying Facebook for seventy-five million dollars. Yahoo! and Microsoft soon offered much more. Zuckerberg turned them all down. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Facebook
Down
Buying
" Of all the questions I get asked as an undocumented immigrant in the United States, there are two - asked in various permutations via email, social media or in person - that chill me to the bone: 'Why don't you just make yourself legal?' And: 'Why don't you get in the back of the line?' "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Legal
Me
Media
" When it comes to fighting for citizenship that many people take for granted, there isn't anyone I would not talk to. When it comes to immigration, there isn't any question I will not answer. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Take For Granted
Fighting
Talk
" I've been uncomfortable dealing with my identity since I was 16 years old. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Identity
Years
Old
" 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. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
How
Creating
React
" I am more than an immigration activist. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Than
More
Immigration
" As a gay man, I think the role of culture is central to how you change politics - culture is politics. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Culture
Change
Man
" For decades, I have cringed whenever someone called me 'illegal,' as if I'm an insect on someone's back. I found out I didn't have the right papers - that I was here illegally - when I tried to get a driver's permit at age 16. But I am not 'illegal.' No person is. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Age
Someone
Person
" I'm not a minority: I'm a majority of one. We all are. To call someone a minority, you give them baggage, of not being full, or not being seen as full. All of us need to be seen as full human beings. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Minority
Human
You
" The fact of the matter is, this country is not going to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. What are we supposed to do with them? What are we supposed to do with these kids? "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Fact
Immigrants
Going
" In 2007, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would become a 'platform,' meaning that outside developers could start creating applications that would run inside the site. It worked. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Creating
Start
Run
" 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. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
You
Work
Worthy
" There were many factors as to why I decided to come out as being undocumented. One of them is because I look the way that I look; I don't look like the 'stereotypical undocumented' person. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Look
Because
Way
" 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. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Me
Control
Say
" One day when I was 16, I rode my bike to the nearby DMV office to get my driver's permit. Some of my friends already had their licenses, so I figured it was time. But when I handed the clerk my green card as proof of U.S. residency, she flipped it around, examining it. 'This is fake,' she whispered. 'Don't come back here again.' "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Time
Green
Friends
" 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. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Privacy
People
Company
" Laws are getting passed in states like Alabama that basically would punish American citizens who are 'harboring' people. Since the federal government hasn't been able to muster or to get comprehensive immigration reform passed, states are taking it upon themselves to police and enforce laws. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
People
American
Police
" I don't think there's any other issue out there that young people are more passionate, and more ahead in, than global warming. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Young
People
Passionate
" I'm more than willing to go to places and talk to people who believe that I am an illegal alien who deserves to be jailed. I want to look them in the eye and say, 'What makes you think I'm any different from you?' I think for our generation, immigration rights is a civil rights issue. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Look
Think
People
" My being gay is not a social issue; it's a fact. It's not something to be debated. It's a reality. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Gay
Reality
Something
" When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Kid
Grandparents
Speak
" The more successful I got, the more scared I got. My name was all over Google. I had a Wikipedia page I was terrified to look at. And so I just snapped. I thought, 'If I'm going to come out with this, I'm going to do it in a big way. And not just for myself. This can't just be my story.' "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Look
Myself
Name
" When people saw that the film was called 'White People,' many got very defensive. I've been getting some very interesting emails - and I'm used to hate mail, believe me. I think this idea that we grouped white people together is offensive to people. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Think
Believe
Hate
" Facebook's headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company's fifth home in six years - the third in Palo Alto. There is virtually no indication outside of the Bunker's tenant. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Quiet
Building
Home
" I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned. "
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Far
I Am
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" To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Know
Me
Gay