Asian Quotes

• If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • America
  • Racism
  • Asian

• Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Two
  • Directors
  • Asian

• I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • American
  • Audiences
  • Asian

• We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Write
  • Hollywood
  • Asian

• They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Asian
  • Barbie

• The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

  

  William C. Kirby
  • Important
  • Done
  • Actors

• There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The list goes on and on.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Black
  • Enough
  • Latin

• I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Asian
  • Robert

• Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Culture
  • Respect
  • Listener

• I was really bothered by it. I grew up around many Asian cultures, Korean one of them. A lot of my best friends were Korean growing up. I just didn't understand. Later on I realized that was built up by certain people and that was directed at me, negative energy from other things, not even resulting around the sport, but around politics, using me to stand on the pedestal as the anti-American sentiment.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I started out in public service in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis of '97.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • Service
  • Financial
  • Public

• I'm spinning records and I look across the restaurant and I see somebody who looks Asian. And I'm like, "Yo, that looks like Yoko Ono." I'm like, oh, I can just meet - that's going to be great. Then I look carefully and I'm like, "That's not Yoko Ono, that's Bruno Mars." And it was Bruno Mars. That just happened recently. I was bugging out. Because that was totally not Yoko Ono at all.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Looks
  • Records
  • Mars

• Historically and culturally, New York City and our entire nation simply would not be the same without the infusion of Asian traditions. Whether it is food, art, language or any other facet of cultural life, Asian Americans have made our city and our country stronger and richer.

  

  Nydia Velazquez
  • City
  • Traditions
  • Cultural

• I think it's easier, I really do, because of not having that similar history, so that's why I think two-thirds of these mixed congregations are either white with Asian and Hispanic, or black with Asian and Hispanic.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • History
  • Asian
  • Congregation

• If I'd been asked to play an Asian man [in Doctor Strange] I would've shown them Benedict Wong.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Men
  • Strange
  • Doctors

• 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
  • People
  • Black
  • Majority

• I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • People
  • Idea
  • Japan

• Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

  

  Sandra Oh
  • Actors
  • Boxes
  • Asian

• It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • People
  • Race
  • Racist

• Do not tell me what I can and cannot do. I'll be as asian as I want to (Stretches his eyes in a racist manner).

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Eye
  • Racist
  • Asian

• So how do Latinos feel if there's a big investment just in the African American community, and they're looking around and saying, "We're poor as well. What kind of help are we getting?" Or Asian Americans who say, "Look, I'm a first-generation immigrant, and clearly I didn't have anything to do with what was taking place."

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • Help
  • Community

• Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's more closely connected to the rise of Asian and Middle Eastern cities in the world economy (Dubai, Shanghai, Taipei, etc.) than anything else.

  

  Paul Goldberger
  • World
  • Economy
  • Eastern

• I only dated one Asian girl, but she was very Asian. She was a panda.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Girl
  • Funny
  • Humor

• I love the Asian countries.

  

  will.i.am
  • Country
  • Asian

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