Americans are fickle. And what constitutes the enemy is…

Within the model minority rhetoric, Asian Americans are represented as “good” minorities and African Americans are represented as “bad” minorities. Here, the achievements of…

— Jennifer Lee

There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like…

— Eric Liu

I started asking friends, my white friends around, I said, "What's something that you think all Asians have in common?" They almost always immediately…

— Simon Tam

So how do Latinos feel if there's a big investment just in the African American community, and they're looking around and saying, "We're poor…

— Barack Obama

Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.

— Martin Yan

With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for Asian-Americans only.

— Celeste Ng

Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.

— Eric Liu

It's very difficult to be asking other people for opportunities. It is much more empowering to be creating opportunities, to be the one who…

— Daniel Dae Kim

People take pride in being Irish-American and Italian-American. They have a particular culture that infuses the whole culture and makes it richer and more…

— Barack Obama

“From 1979 to 1988, it concluded, Harvard admitted only 13.2 percent of Asian Americans, compared with 17.4 percent of whites. Applicants from California and…

— Daniel Golden

There's the complex categorization of low warmth/high competence. This is the hostile stereotype of Asian Americans by white America, of Jews in Europe, of…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Asian Americans haven't had as many opportunities as other people to build their careers in Hollywood, just because there hasn't been that much of…

— Daniel Wu

I forget the impact you have, especially when I see a young Korean girl or family, they come up to me and they love…

— Jessica Pegula

Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

— Nicole Ari Parker

As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other battle, which is Asian Americans playing roles that…

— Ross Butler