Accept Quote by Tess Gerritsen

Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with…

— Lucy Liu

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

— Chloe Bennet

There was always a struggle with being Asian and not being Asian enough. It's going to be down to me to own my race.

— Henry Golding

I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring an interesting…

— Archie Panjabi

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 first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within this homogenizing…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I have Asian friends - second generation - and I am the worst in terms of being in touch with my heritage.

— Romesh Ranganathan

Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever…

— Langston Hughes

I sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know the culture…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

When I grew up, my race was not a thing. My identity was in my class. It was not about colour on my estate.

— Michaela Coel

With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for Asian-Americans only.

— Celeste Ng

I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.

— Jacqueline Woodson