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We South Asians have sycophancy in our genes! -- Cyrus Broacha
Now it's time for amasians... That's Asians doing something amazing. -- Daniel Tosh
Asians are nice people, but they burn a lot of shirts. -- Don Rickles
I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians. -- Pauline Hanson
More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model. -- Kiana Tom
I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about. -- Eddie Huang
I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness. -- Jack Kornfield
Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda. -- Dat Phan
American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off. -- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV. -- Randall Park
I feel like my evolution has come to a place where now I'm attached to Crazy Rich Asians. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Many people, not just Asians, are more concerned with hustling and getting to meetings with contacts to gain success. -- Steven Yeun
I met a woman who told me she wasn't attracted to Asians. No worries, I said. I'm not attracted to racists. -- Simon S Tam
We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go. -- Marion Barry
I met a woman who told me that she wasn't attracted to Asians. "No worries," I said. "I'm not attracted to racists -- Simon Tam
Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians? -- Lee Kuan Yew
I think that it'd be nice for other Asians to support other Asian artists and help each other instead of pull each other down. -- Justin Chon
Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete. -- Whitney Cummings
We pride ourselves on our democratic traditions, but in Canada, women couldn't vote until 1918, Asians until 1948, and First Nations people living on reserves until 1960. -- David Suzuki
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
I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from. -- Coco Lee
A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians. -- Susan Estrich
Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians. -- Yani Tseng
Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators. -- Yo-Yo Ma
For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.' -- Jose Antonio Vargas
In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated. -- Tahar Rahim
In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball. -- Michael Chang
A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black, white, Asian and Hispanic. -- Thomas Sowell
Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians. -- Constance Wu
People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities. -- Amartya Sen
This is what it is for Asians to be part of - support affirmative action, even though it may be against their interest, but they feel it's a matter of justice. -- Cornel West
I dont like Jews. Or colored folk. Or natives, now that you mention it...I bet you like Catholics. Cant stand them either. Nor women, Fabians, Socialists, homosexuals, Asians, or British. -- Herbert
My family brought me up to be very assimilated and accepting of everyone. But I do get frustrated when I see other Asians who behave in a way that reflects a stereotype. -- Pearl Tan
Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten. -- Gloria Steinem
Be happy with your stereotype. Asians - that's the stereotype I want. Being the smartest person in the world? You're the smartest, what are you complaining about? You know what I get? 'Wassup? -- Godfrey
When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping point is generally 15 percent; at 15 percent you begin to see white flight. -- Richard Benjamin
I believe that we are still hovering around the realm of Asians playing all types of Asians. I do not see that changing any time soon just because there is a limited pool of Asian actors. -- Steven Yeun
Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.' -- Jonathan Kozol
It's a myth that generally Asians are mostly vegetarians. The Japanese are the kings of red meat, but it's expensive. The Chinese and Vietnamese love their pork. Many Indians, especially the Muslims, can't live without their lamb. -- Wolfgang Puck
It deals with so many different aspects of living in South Africa the racial issues of South Africans and Asians with poverty with the reality of children orphaned by AIDS the transition from village life to city life. -- Laura Thielen
People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK. -- David Mitchell
Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their feelings. There's a hardness to the culture, but at the same time there's a delicateness. -- Paz Vega
Prior to 'Tokyo Drift,' the iconic perception of Asians in Hollywood films has been either the Kung Fu guy, the Yakuza guy or some technical genius. It used to be such a joke, to be laughed at rather than with. -- Sung Kang
A lot of Asians and Asian-Americans have liver problems. If you basically ask anybody who is Asian, they or one of their relatives will have some sort of a liver issue, and the liver actually falls into the jurisdiction of the gastroenterologist. -- Gene Luen Yang
In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived, where Asians did not live, where Negroes did not live, my family's Mexican shades passed as various. -- Richard Rodriguez
My friends often say I'm the most racist person they know against Asians. And it's sort of like, "If I make the joke first, then I have the power and I'm holding the cards and you're not going to put me down for that." -- Pearl Tan
Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny. -- Sandra Bullock
I read in 'Life' magazine that Asians had developed an operation to enlarge eyes, and I yearned to have this done. I wanted to dye my hair brown and to anglicize my name. Self-hate was the most terrible cost of the war years for me. -- David Suzuki
This was in the '70s and there was a lot of racism towards South Asians and there was a lot of hazing and bullying and racism that really probably shaped me in some way in terms of, like, wanting to get out of there. -- Aasif Mandvi
It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians (and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people) are carrying around is random. This means there are different bits and pieces in different populations, but it doesn't seem to amount to much that's significant. -- Elizabeth Kolbert
I think the Japanese love young, tannic red wines much more than most Americans do. Perhaps it is because Asians have a great fondness for tea, and tea is a very tannic beverage. Therefore a young, tannic red wine is something familiar to an Asian palate. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was. -- Kurt Vonnegut
You've got to invite Native Americans to the table, and Asians, and Chicanos. You cannot keep us in the back room anymore and give us notations on paper saying this is what you deserve. You have to invite us to the table because America is ours, too. -- Jimmy Santiago Baca
Do you know what it is sir? Do you know what the Dance Dance Revolution is? It's not an actual revolution, so you don't have to worry about that. It's not like a bunch of Asians are going to knock on your door 'Hey! Start dancing!' -- Russell Peters
The roles for South Asians may have increased by a decent number but there has been a negligible change in the quality of these roles. We still have to fight stereotypes. Fortunately, I've had the priviledge of working with people who look beyond the color of your skin. -- Lavrenti Lopes
You remember all those phrases about how 'these people' - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese. -- Neil Sheehan
You remember all those phrases about how these people - Asians - dont value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese. -- Neil Sheehan
You gotta understand, there are two different kinds of Asians - the kind who are good at school, obey their parents, go to college - that kind of stuff. And then you have my family - me, my brother, all of my cousins - we're just wretched people. -- Bobby Lee
In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the majority of the world's population from Turkey to China. These are the amazing stories of the grandfathers of today's angry Asians. Excellent! -- Orhan Pamuk
Why don't we hear more about and from Asians when it comes to race in America? Are Asians the new Invisible Man - there but not there? In some ways, yeah. Blacks and whites are always carping about the metrics of racism. And any conversation about immigration reform is immediately flipped into a referendum on Hispanics. -- John Ridley
When I started acting, I hoped I could make some kind of positive contribution to this world. When I get a letter from some kid in Nebraska saying that, prior to Han, nobody wanted to be his friend because Asians weren't cool if they weren't into martial arts - Now he's accepted and recognized as a human being. That's pretty awesome, right? -- Sung Kang
I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing. -- David Henry Hwang
I'm just honest. They [asians] don't want to see black people generally in their movies. -- Bill Maher

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