71 Quotes About Asian-american

You came here, your parents and their parents and their parents, and you always seem to have just arrived and yet never seem to have actually arrived.

[Willis is] asking to be treated like an American. A real American. Because, honestly, when you think American, what color do you see? White? Black? We’ve been here two hundred years. Why doesn’t this face register as American?

It’s my fault she is this way. I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these two things do not mix?

Life's always a big fucking compromise. You don't always get what you want, no matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how good you are. That's a myth. We're all hanging in the best way we can.

I now believe truth lies not in logic but in hope, both past and future. I believe hope can surprise you. It can survive the odds against it, all sorts of contradictions, and certainly any skeptic's rationale of relying on proof through fact.

The next world is 'segregated'? You can go to the World of Yin only if you're Chinese?""No-no! Miss Banner, she not Chinese, she go to Yin World. All depend what you love, what you believe. You love Jesus, go Jesus House. You love Allah, go Allah Land. You love sleep, go sleep.""What if you don't believe in anything for sure before you die?""Then you go big place, like Disneyland, many places can go try--you like, you decide. No charge, of course.

But to pretend that all was right with the world, I first had to know what was wrong.

You’re here, supposedly, in a new land full of opportunity, but somehow have gotten trapped in a pretend version of the old country.

I am forced to admit that I am, to them, nothing but a series of destinations with no meaningful expanses in between.