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Frank Chin
4 quotes
“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…”
Frank Chin (born 1940) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his novel Donald Duk (as quoted in ““FRANK CHIN: HIS OWN VOICE” in the Bloombury Review; September 1991)
“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…”
Frank Chin (born 1940) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the writing process in ““FRANK CHIN: HIS OWN VOICE” in the Bloombury Review (September 1991)
“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.”
Frank Chin (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source