Ronny Chieng Quotes

If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.

I would like to share with you my plan to destroy America…. I would invest in ethnic identity and victimology. I would get them to think that their lack of success was only the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry.

'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens to have more characters who are not Ethiopian than who are.

African-Americans are underrepresented.

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.

There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.

There were no small brown kids as the centre of the children's fiction I grew up with.

I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.

I feel like being vocal on social media, especially working in an industry that is very Eurocentric.

More than anything, I'm an American kid, and my music reflects that more so than being an Asian-American. I think it's important but also something that can detrimental to your career if celebrated too much.

Ethnic minorities are not one homogeneous political group.

The issue with race particularly within this country is largely because of lack of dialogue.

When I come to the airport, they always send me with all the other Israeli Arabs to the foreign workers' line. I don't mind. I feel like I belong more with all the people from abroad and the foreign workers than in the Israelis' line.

As a person of color, I feel like I'm socialized to feel like a remnant of poverty or something primitive, and I don't feel like that at all. I can be myself and be me.

Racism was a big part of our community. I'm not going to revisit history, and I'm not going to call out those communities, but the communities we grew up around, we were treated like second- or third-class citizens.

Basically, the system works to my disadvantage for no other reason than that I am a person of color, and I am telling stories about people of color.

But being Asian American, a lot of Asian American guys come up to me who are in interracial relationships and they tell me, 'Growing up my partner had a big crush on you and so you're probably one of the reasons why she married me, so thank you.'

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't sat in the corners of power.

Effectively transcending and conquering the legacies of enchainment, impoverishment and racial denigration continue to elude us. Residual elements of the plantation-based past continue to shape our societies and determine their trajectories.

Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country.

In west London where I live, white people are a minority. In the area I am in, which is the borough of Brent, whites are less than 50%.

That is just the reality of being a marginalized person in this country: you have to deal with the psychological impact of your oppressor - whether that's being a woman dealing with men or gay people dealing with straight people or trans people dealing with everybody else.

I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy.

I was always made aware of inequality in society, that there was a class system. In Somalia, we have clan structures. My mother's family is ethnically not Somali, and so we spoke often about what it meant to be 'other' in that way.

Korean-Americans, Asian-Americans are so unbelievably underrepresented in the U.S. entertainment and media industries and I don't think we are given a real shot.