Frank Chin quotes

I am out of theatre. I will not work with any theatre, producer, writer, director, or actor who plays and lives the stereotype. So I write fiction, essays, and articles. (Frank Chin)
That this play is the first play by an Asian American at our existence, is proof of the great success white racism has had with us. America might love us. But America's love is not good. It's racist love. I don't want it. View quote
Frank Chin
The first thing that begins to happen when you begin taking yourself seriously as a writer is this imaginary writer's block that people talk about, but I never really suffered from. But there's this barrier between the spoken word and the written word, once you set something down in writing it's supposed to be set in stone or you take on this funny attitude that writing is unnatural... View quote
Frank Chin
My main concern was to write a novel that uses all of this stuff that is accessible, to write a novel that deals with white racism and Chinese American history and the real Chinese fairy tales and the heroic tradition, and to demonstrate that a Chinese American could do all of this without sending whites up the wall or alienating anybody... View quote
Frank Chin