American family Quote by Lisa See

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a…

— Phillip Lim

For me, my family is from Los Angeles.

— Max Fried

Friends in the Midwest often ask me what it's like to raise a family in Los Angeles. I say it's just like where they…

— Steven Levitan

My family is still in Los Angeles. We listened to all sorts of music: Mexican music, oldies, soul, disco and rock & roll. I…

— Hope Sandoval

On the mission I brought a flag from China, I brought the stone sculpture from Hong Kong, and I brought a scroll from Taiwan.…

— Leroy Chiao

Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren't many people like me on the big screen.

— Daniel Wu

I'm a Chinese American.

— Eric Yuan

“As a Chinese American growing up in a largely white world during the 1920s and 1930s, a sense of social marginalization marked her formative…

— Stephen M. Ward

My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him later. We…

— Celeste Ng

The cultural pressure for a middle-class Chinese-American to walk, talk and act like a lower-class thug from Chinatown is nil. The same can be…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

— Anonymous

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.'…

— Jenny Zhang

I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United…

— Leroy Chiao

If someone were to call me 'the next Amy Tan,' it would not be because - or not primarily because - we have similar…

— Celeste Ng

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