Devon Aoki Quotes

Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.

The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.

I don't like the fact that people are put into boxes based on what we look like and what we have to wear. Categories are meant for cookies, you know? Not for humans. And so the fact that I've been able to be successful and do it in a way that's very outside the box, I hope that that makes women feel like they can be beautiful in an authentic way.

Most of us, when imagining an All-American, wouldn't picture a man who looked like me. Not even I would.

People want to call me racist for doing the Bon Qui Qui character, and I'm like, 'Look, Bon Qui Qui is a representation of a hood chick. That's it.' There are lots of hood chicks out there: some are black, some are Mexican, some are Salvadorian, and some are white.

Models are supposed to be a muse to you. Why is a muse always the same body type, the same look? It's boring.

No one is perfect and everyone is different, but everyone one is beautiful in their own way and that's what makes us special.For me, it went beyond being a beauty queen. For me, it was about being the 20-year-old girl from India on international platform and a lot of people actually would assume that I wasn't even educated in India because of the way I'd speak.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.

I did a little modeling in Minnesota, but because I was a heavier 'model,' I didn't pursue it much when I lived there.

You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.

I don't feel as if I'm typecast - like any writer, the difficulty is that one facet of my identity becomes louder, obscuring the fact that I'm also a woman, a writer, a lover of pop culture and other things.

Models are people. A lot of people like to make us some species that are not human; we are normal people.

The American girl doesn't look just one kind of way - not in 2018, not ever.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

Wherever I go, people ask: 'What is she? What is she?' There has always been an agenda - they're excluding me or including me in something with that question. It is the first thing agents in Los Angeles ask me. And then I'd hear: 'You're not black enough, you're too black, you're Italian - no, you're Spanish.'

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America.

Part of the reason I wanted to model was to push the boundaries and challenge the perceptions of what a beautiful body is supposed to look like. Why should I feel any differently about looking good than anyone else?

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

People don't really think other people are the same.

When I first started, all the media I ever got was, 'Hey! There's this Indian girl. And even though she is Indian, she gets views and stuff.'

Labels are for cans, not people.