Always Quote by Diane Ackerman

So when people used to call me 'chinki' I thought that okay maybe my mother is Chinese so they are calling me that. It…

— Jwala Gutta

I went to Mongolia as a teenager and I thought it would be cool to dye my hair into a Mongolian flag; a red-blue-red…

— Tom Rosenthal

My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.

— Irina Shayk

My mother was a Tibetan Buddhist.

— Amber Mark

My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone.

— Raquel Welch

And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

— Amy Tan

I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East…

— Olivia Williams

The only thing Oriental about me is my face,

— Soong May-ling

My features are completely ethnic.

— Naomi Campbell

My parents were unconventional for Asian parents.

— Justin Lin

The only thing I know about being Asian is that my hair is black and my eyelashes are straight and I have strange eyebrows.

— KT Tunstall

I think everyone wants to know why I look like this. These jokes I make about looking Chinese... My mother's from Hungary and my…

— Michael McIntyre