People's view of exotic or Asian women are changing. It's much nicer to hear 'She's pretty' than 'She's pretty - for an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate to work with some amazing Asian filmmakers in independent film. — Ken Jeong Copy Share Image
No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
When I first came out to L.A., Hollywood's idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen… — Lauren Velez Copy Share Image
I'm the first South Asian woman to be elected to the House of Representatives. — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that. — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
Politics abhors a vacuum, and Asian countries will gravitate towards China if U.S. influence is perceived as declining. — John McCain Copy Share Image
So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned,… — Ayumi Hamasaki Copy Share Image
I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
In British TV, if there is an Asian character, there usually has to be a reason for them to be Asian, whereas… — Jessica Henwick Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I didn't realize that the idiosyncrasies of my mother's character had something to do with our culture.… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
Although I still have a long way to go, I would like to become the pride of Asia. When another Asian artist… — Rain Copy Share Image
I knew I was half Chinese, but Iceland is so homogenous that I wasn't able to identify with the Asian part of… — Laufey 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
Let's take Southeast Asia. The last 20, 30 years has been what's called the "Asian Miracle" - fast economic growth, industrial society.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
Within the model minority rhetoric, Asian Americans are represented as “good” minorities and African Americans are represented as “bad” minorities. Here, the… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
A lot of times I go to a comedy show, I sit there and wait for the comedian to run out of… — Eugene Lee Yang Copy Share Image
When these Asians go out looking for a victim, they don't go looking for Asian victims. They don't go mugging Asian grandmas,… — Mark Collett Copy Share Image
I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I got comments about being too small, too short, there haven't been any Asian players and who am I to go out… — Michael Chang Copy Share Image
Asian males have not been appreciated for what they are. They have always been dissed for what they are not. — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
I think Li Na and some other Chinese ladies have done so many amazing things for Asian tennis. — Kei Nishikori Copy Share Image
We need a lot more positive Latin role models in movies and in television. They exist! It's not fiction. — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
“I’m a sailor, and we’re both British,” Lewrie said with a grin. “Of course, we need a dab of mustard.” — Dewey Lambdin Copy Share Image
Bruce Lee was the first guy to bring film recognition of Asian men not being wimps, so it made me want to… — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Copy Share Image
For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country. — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
There was a stage when I was a little embarrassed about my Asian upbringing. — Henry Golding Copy Share Image
I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
My music is always called "cerebral." It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy. — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
There were so many more opportunities in K-pop for a young Asian American singer. — Tiffany Hwang Copy Share Image
Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television. — John Cho Copy Share Image
The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
With 'To All the Boys,' it's not an Asian rom-com. We tried to tell the coming-of-age story of a 16-year-old girl who… — Lana Condor Copy Share Image
We moved to America when I was young, but we were always very Welsh in our home. The humor, food, traditions. Very… — Richard Brake Copy Share Image
