Asian american Quote by Maya Lin

When I was growing up, anyone who wasn't white was black. It meant all of us. Though when I was at university, we started…

— Sadiq Khan

Growing up, there were stereotypes being put onto me as an Asian person that I had no control over, and that made me extremely…

— Michelle Zauner

Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either

— Eddie Huang

Growing up in a school that was majority white, my understanding of the world was that I was different but that differences shouldn't be…

— Alicia Garza

I grew up very American but also fully Asian.

— Lana Condor

I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn't identify as that before I came here. People started…

— Mitski

I knew I was half Chinese, but Iceland is so homogenous that I wasn't able to identify with the Asian part of myself. Even…

— Laufey

Growing up where I was, there were no Asians, no minorities, and there was always something to remind me of what I'm not. And…

— Lee Isaac Chung

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

— Dalia Mogahed

Growing up as an Asian American in this society, there were a lot of times where you feel isolated or out of place as…

— Ming-Na Wen

I grew up with white parents, and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I definitely think the fact that I come from a multicultural background, my mother living life in a white skin and having white skin…

— Sarah Jones