Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes

I don't like to say 'dork' and 'nerd' and things like that because I think that everyone is cool in their own right.

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

There is always a human being behind the titles and the status.

I'm not a number. Dammit, I'm a man.

I am happy to know that my husband regards me as a woman and a person.

And every human being is precious.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

When everyone is telling you, 'You're so beautiful, there's nobody like you,' you begin to think it's true. But of course there is nobody like you.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

When my first play was produced, I had this sudden feeling that I feel powerful. Like, the next time I go into an audition room, and it's me and the same eight girls as always, I will have this thing that no one can take away from me. They can see us all as interchangeable. But I am not interchangeable.

I'm a unique person, as everyone is, but none of us has more of a right to existence or a right to specialness or uniqueness than anyone else.

You don't have to look like a warrior in every role.

Every human being is special because they all have identities.

I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.

People like to pretend that all women have the same experience or that all gay people have the same experience. But everyone's life is different, and everyone's point of view is valid.

I think people respect you for who you are rather than which group you are a part of.