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No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act. -- Mako
You don't get respect for being an Asian-American basketball player in the U.S. -- Jeremy Lin
I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support! -- Jeremy Lin
Being the only Asian-American in the State Legislature, I've had no choice but to reach across the aisle. -- Grace Meng
Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes. -- Jeremy Lin
To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support Asian-American artists. -- Justin Chon
A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising. -- Robert Morgan
I don't have a problem with these Arizona laws. I have a problem with Chicano, Gay and Lesbian, Asian-American and African-American histories not being taught in American History courses. -- M.G. Hardie
Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice. -- Maya Lin
It's funny - when I started acting, I didn't know I was going to be talking about Asian-American issues so much. You know what, though? It just comes with the territory, being ethnic. -- Justin Chon
I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally. -- Bharati Mukherjee
I'm Asian-American, and I was the only Chinese girl growing up in a white school in San Diego. So I understood what it was like to be different, to always want to fit in and never feel like you ever could. -- Tess Gerritsen
It's interesting for myself, growing up as an Asian-American filmmaker. Coming into the industry, my parents always said, "No one's going to give you the opportunity. You just have to do the work. Be better than everyone else, so they can't deny it." -- Daniel Radcliffe
I have minor characters who are Asian-American, and I've been using them throughout my career, but they've never taken center stage, they've never been really powerful, they've never expressed some of the experiences I had growing up in the U.S. Johnny Tam is the first one. -- Tess Gerritsen
Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent. -- Constance Wu
I have hidden my race for 22 books. I have hidden behind my married name, which is very Caucasian, because I didn't feel safe coming out with it. I didn't feel that the market would really accept me. I think I felt it's time to start bringing in an Asian-American point of view. -- Tess Gerritsen
My brother often complains to me about the 'angry Asian male' in the United States. As a female, I haven't encountered this, but Asian-American men are angry. They're angry because, for so many years, they've been neglected as sex symbols. Asian women have it much easier, I think; we're accepted into various circles. -- Tess Gerritsen
The most important thing to keep in mind is the incredible diversity of talent that's out there - there are so many great actors from all over Asia, from Singapore and Hong Kong to the Philippines and Mainland China, not to mention many great Asian-American actors who are eager for fun and challenging roles. -- Kevin Kwan
My work has always been controversial within certain segments of the Asian-American community. This is a community that is generally not represented well at all on the stage, in the media, etc. So on those few occasions when something comes along, everybody feels obligated to make sure that it represents his own point of view. -- David Henry Hwang
As an Asian American at pilot season you take whatever there is. -- Reggie Lee
I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences. -- Jackie Chan
Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television. -- John Cho
I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community. -- Jeremy Lin
They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter. That's anti-American and it's racist. -- Rudy Giuliani
I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman. -- Chloe Bennet
Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances. -- Michael Chang
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France. -- Suzanne Fields
I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from Asia. -- Ming-Na Wen
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month provides us all an opportunity to reflect upon this community's many contributions and to celebrate its bright future. -- Nydia Velazquez
The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect. -- Ferdinand Marcos
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month provides us all an opportunity to reflect upon this communitys many contributions and to celebrate its bright future. -- Nydia Velazquez
The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian. -- Paul Achleitner
There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock. -- Fred Tomaselli
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history. -- Maya Angelou
Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or Africa -- Ban Ki-moon
Hawaiis own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination. -- Colleen Hanabusa
Hawaii's own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination. -- Colleen Hanabusa
Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day. -- Mike Pence
The Green Turtle' was created in the 1940s by a cartoonist named Chu Hing, one of the first Asian Americans to work in the American comic book industry. -- Gene Luen Yang
OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me. -- Maya Lin
There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is -- Edward James Olmos
There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is. -- Edward James Olmos

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