Born Quote by Tess Gerritsen

I am a first-generation Chinese-American; my husband is white. We have a little boy, so I think a lot about what it's like when…

— Celeste Ng

I am proud to be a first-generation Chinese-American in the sport of figure skating.

— Nathan Chen

My mother emigrated from Russia as a young child. She couldn't speak English and had no education. Her father died at age 32, leaving…

— Dianne Feinstein

My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and…

— Mike Myers

My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job,…

— Tess Gerritsen

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

“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

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

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