116 Quotes by Diane Guerrero

I know my family loves me, but the hardest part is to love myself.

For me, picking a college was really difficult. I wish I had had my parents there kind of supervising me. But I chose well. I did OK.

Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life was over.

As a kid, I felt like I had no voice, felt like I had no options, and that's what drove me to this really dark place.

My real story is this: I am the citizen daughter of immigrant parents who were deported when I was 14. My older brother was also deported.

Even if you can't be an activist every day, when you can be, do it.

I went through depression, which is something that we don't often talk about when we look at undocumented communities and deported families.

I want immigration reform to come into fruition, and I want it to be comprehensive, and I want it to have a path to citizenship, and I want to be involved politically every day.

I so desperately wanted to be honest, and I so desperately wanted to love myself and accept myself for who I was.