We have a lot of comments on the news, we have a lot of rhetoric over what an immigrant is and what a deportee is, but you don’t hear any real stories. I don’t think we ever had the chance to really tell our side. Diane Guerrero Read Quote
This is the kind of stuff me and my friends talk about. We sit around and drink coffee, and we’re really angry: We’re like, ‘Where’s the Latino Museum?’ Where can we go with our families, where can we go with our friends to learn about our history? Diane Guerrero Read Quote
I so desperately wanted to fit in. There was a trajectory, and obviously, our society tells us that you go to high school, you graduate, and then you go to college, and from there, you get an internship, you get a job, and some people study abroad, and there are so many things you see that you desperately want to be a part of. Diane Guerrero Read Quote
I want to be viewed like a serious actress, and I’m afraid that people are just going to see me as the poor little girl whose parents were deported when she was 14. Diane Guerrero Read Quote
All of the characters on ‘Doom Patrol’ explore traumatic pasts, how to deal with those pasts, and how that affects their present and their future. Diane Guerrero Read Quote
I would have had a much different story to tell if I had been imprisoned after being separated from my family, without a warm bed and only the cold faces of ICE agents and the crinkly feeling of a Mylar blanket. Diane Guerrero Read Quote
Some people have issues in their past that might make them tweak out at certain moments, but it’s possible to snap back and be a real human being. Diane Guerrero Read Quote
I’ve experienced colorism in that way: where if you’re lighter, then you’ll potentially be accepted into society better than if you were darker-skinned. Diane Guerrero Read Quote
I think people want immigration reform. I think people want to see a path for citizenship. I don’t think we as a country want to discuss this in the way we do. I don’t think we want to separate families. I don’t think that’s part of our values. Diane Guerrero Read Quote
