Aliens Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“I can hear people in American society saying, "Oh, you just like that subservient kind of woman in Asia who waits on her man…

— Richard Terrill

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

— Chloe Bennet

It's far too rare an experience for Asian American girls to see themselves in media.

— Jenny Han

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

A lot of times we have these categories that maybe don't fit the reality of human experience and human identity. I'm completely sympathetic to…

— Lee Isaac Chung

I think there's a misconception that all Asian-American experiences are the same. My experiences with my family and the way they wanted me to…

— Lana Condor

People's view of exotic or Asian women are changing. It's much nicer to hear 'She's pretty' than 'She's pretty - for an Asian woman.

— Anonymous

Even if you look at 'American Idol,' or 'X-Factor,' or 'The Voice' or anything, it was always difficult to see an Asian or an…

— Eric Nam

I was a mixed black girl existing in a westernized Hawaiian culture where petite Asian women were the ideal, in a white culture where…

— Janet Mock

Unexpectedly, I'm here now, so I need to let all the U.S. marketers know that Asians are not different. We are all the same.

— PSY

As a community, as a group of people as a society, Asian Americans have not always been visible, but we've always been present.

— Tamlyn Tomita