When I was writing stories about Chinese American…

Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty,…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

“When foreigners read the Book of Acts you see inspiring stories. When we Chinese read the Book of Acts we see it in our…

— Chinese underground Church leader

I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my…

— Jenny Zhang

I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an…

— Janelle Monae

The best stories are universal stories that have been told for as long as humanity has existed it's just figuring out new ways to…

— James Frey

That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the end, there are things about this novel…

— Jesmyn Ward

I'm a storyteller who wants to tell untold, meaningful, universal stories in unforgettable ways. I want to do it all, study it all, and…

— Janelle Monae

I insist that through specificity, honesty, and diversity, who gets to hold the storytelling stick, you can have really universal stories that everyone can…

— Greta Lee

I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream.…

— Malcolm D. Lee

The Souvenir is an incredibly specific story, but people recognise the universal in it. Because, that's how stories work.

— Tom Burke

I like ambiguity because you may be the villain in someone else's story and the hero in your own, and I think very often,…

— Chadwick Boseman

When British or Australian actors perform American characters, we laud them and talk about how great it is they are able to do this…

— Hong Chau

Unfortunately, in television today there are very few African-American characters who are human beings. They are typically two-dimensional stereotypes, cookie-cutter types.

— Andre Braugher

I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world; there are…

— Darius McCrary

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent…

— Gregg Sulkin