David Henry Hwang Quotes

Yeah, I'm sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.

I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are always portrayed to be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

Every time I do something, I think, 'Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?'

No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, women - but somehow it's okay to do that with hillbillies.

The coverage [of crimes] is different. It's less angry when white [athletes] are involved, less accusatory, less judgemental. I see that in the pieces that are written and reported. At times it bothers me to the point that I just stop reading...just stop.

As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

We went through a period of time when if you were of Asian descent, you would play a terrorist or you would play, you know, like, the 7-Eleven guy or you would play that. And then really watch television now.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

You never hear about a pit bull doing anything good in the media. And they have a stigma to them... and, in many ways, pit bulls are like young African-American males. Whenever you see us in the news, it's for getting shot and killed or shooting and killing somebody - for being a stereotype.

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

The rumor is Chu Hing really wanted the 'Green Turtle' to be Chinese American, but the publisher didn't think that would sell. If you read those books, the hero almost always has his back facing the camera so you can't see his face. When he turns around, his face is obscured.

There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media.

I don't believe in blanket statements on race.

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

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.