Quotes About Being Asian American

#1. You don't get respect for being an Asian-American basketball player in the U.S.

Jeremy Lin

#2. I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free.
But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.

Rabindranath Tagore

#3. I hope that at this moment you are thinking of yourself as a human being rather than as an American, Asian, European, African, or member of any particular country. These loyalties are secondary.

Dalai Lama

#4. I got obsessed with makeup and makeup artists when I was young, with people like Kevyn Aucoin.

Rita Ora

#5. All his elaborated arguments and beautiful sentences turned, under the influence of alcohol, into dust and slipped between his nicotine-stained fingers.

Ole H.

#6. A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.

Robert Breault

#7. It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.

William Rehnquist

#8. When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.

Christopher Walken

#9. Being the only Asian-American in the State Legislature, I've had no choice but to reach across the aisle.

Grace Meng

#10. It seems to me that we all have a dream of our own, our own personal vision, our own individual way of giving, but for many reasons we are afraid to pursue it, or to even recognize and accept its existence. But to deny our vision is to sell our soul.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#11. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Robert Kennedy

#12. She believed being so free with her sexuality was empowering, but I wouldn't say taking home a douchebag who would laugh about the encounter with his friend later is a step forward in the feminist movement.-Lily

Teresa Lo

#13. I threw my hands up. Men. They were impossible to reason with.

Jeaniene Frost

#14. 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

#15. Art is the god you have not seen.

Mary Butts

#16. I never go out to be photographed, never. I go to events because they're fun.

Lily Allen

#17. Bemoan being lower-middle-class and colored in a police state that protects only rich white people and movie stars of all races, though I can't think of any Asian-American ones.

Paul Beatty

#18. 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

#19. Try being an indie author, a minority author, a woman, and a person with health issues in the world of traditional - that's where you are clearly 'different' and marginalized. I am all of that, yet I am still here and smiling. Life is good!

Kailin Gow

#20. Very well, Broadway, you may whip some, but not me. I'm going to force you to give up.

Napoleon Hill

#21. Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.

Barry B. Powell

#22. 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