I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From 1979 to 1988, it concluded, Harvard admitted only 13.2 percent of Asian Americans, compared with 17.4 percent of whites. Applicants from… — Daniel Golden Copy Share Image
People take pride in being Irish-American and Italian-American. They have a particular culture that infuses the whole culture and makes it richer… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It does feel like we get to just carte blanche create a superhero origin story for 2021, for this day and age,… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
We have a lot of heroes. We have Asian heroes, we have Asian American heroes, men, women, of all ages, and not… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to be asking other people for opportunities. It is much more empowering to be creating opportunities, to be the… — Daniel Dae Kim Copy Share Image
You know, we never grew up with Asian American role models in the entertainment industry, unfortunately. I'd never seen an Asian face… — Eric Nam Copy Share Image
Hawaii's own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought… — Colleen Hanabusa Copy Share Image
As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
It's funny - when I started acting, I didn't know I was going to be talking about Asian-American issues so much. You… — Justin Chon Copy Share Image
With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I came on to 'Iron Fist,' it was really Colleen Wing that sold it for me. I thought it was a… — Jessica Henwick Copy Share Image
Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in… — Martin Yan Copy Share Image
“Asian men could be socially inept and incompetent and ridiculous, like a Long Duk Dong, or at best unthreatening and slightly buffoonish,… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
My work has always been controversial within certain segments of the Asian-American community. This is a community that is generally not represented… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand… — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman. — Chloe Bennet Copy Share Image
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