American writer Quote by Celeste Ng

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

But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music…

— James Iha

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

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

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

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