Even before BuzzFeed, Asian-American faces and voices were…

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me…

— Erich von Stroheim

I'm most concerned with committing to characters that contribute to more complex, modern and dynamic Asian-American representation on screen.

— Eugene Lee Yang

I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate;…

— Mazie Hirono

“My nose does not look like Barbie's nose and that's perfectly fine.”

— The Thoughtful Beast

“The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never…

— Monique Truong

Nationally, more than one million Asian American entrepreneurs create jobs in their communities, helping fuel local commerce. In New York, we have seen firsthand…

— Nydia Velazquez

I ended up going into the Master's program for Asian-American studies at UCLA, in part because I was passionate about it, but also because…

— Randall Park

My heritage is something that I have always been aware of, however, some would say that there is a disproportionately low number of Asians…

— Nathan Adrian

I wish people wouldn't just see me as the Asian girl who beats everyone up, or the Asian girl with no emotion. People see…

— Lucy Liu

Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting…

— Jenny Zhang

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. We can now have action movies with two stars…

— Roger Ebert

I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It's something that Asians in Asia do not understand…

— John Cho

I have been called racist slurs and been treated differently because I am Asian American.

— Michelle Steel

The narrative needs to change. Asian-American actresses don't want to be the damsels in distress anymore. We don't want to be saved, especially by…

— Jamie Chung

“Why I am Passionate and Dedicated 1000% to producing and bringing my books Loving Summer, Bitter Frost, and other book series to the Screen…

— Kailin Gow