Being me Quote by Richard Rodriguez

The American culture is pursue your own happiness, follow your dreams. The Chinese side is sacrifice everything for your family; it's all about the…

— Jon M. Chu

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

— Anchee Min

There's so many Chinese or Asian Americans that were either born in another country like I was and raised in America or born in…

— Ross Butler

Americans believe that you can alter people by conversion, and that everybody in the world is a potential American. The Chinese also believe that…

— Henry A. Kissinger

How come the Chinese can go where I can't go in America? Englishmen can come and set up a business in white America and…

— Muhammad Ali

I have worked out that I am virtually Chinese, because everything I own is from China.

— Sean Lock

I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic…

— Conor Oberst

America loses so much of what defines it if you subtract the Chinese influence. I know this because I spent 12 years living in…

— W. Kamau Bell

There's a reason why the cultures of so many Chinatowns around the world in some ways are more Chinese. They've held onto older Chinese…

— Lulu Wang

The downside to defining everything Chinese as different than American is that all things Chinese then become exotic.

— W. Kamau Bell

Mexicans who come to America today end up opposing assimilation. They say they are "holding on to their culture." To them, I say, "If…

— Richard Rodriguez

I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.

— Patrick Chan