I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.
In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word.
Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.
Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.
I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.
The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially.
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much more recent than their common ancestor with the Asian apes--the gibbons and orangutans. There is no natural category that includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans but excludes humans.
I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.
I'm an Asian with a Southern accent. To a lot of people, that right there is funny.
Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.