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Gene Luen Yang Quotes
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![One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there’s this temptation to make Asian characters white Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/826/825870/825870.webp "One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there’s this temptation to make Asian characters white Picture Quote #1")
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I would hope that maybe math teachers could use ‘Prime Baby’ as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
I minored in creative writing in college, and I’ve played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
I’m a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I’m also a coder. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
I wanted to make an explicitly educational comic that taught readers the concepts I covered in my introductory programming class. That’s what ‘Secret Coders’ is. It’s both a fun story about a group of tweens who discover a secret coding school, and an explanation of some foundational ideas in computer science. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
Superman was created in the late 1930s, and humankind’s idea of what the future would be was very different. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
We have to allow ourselves the freedom to make mistakes, including cultural mistakes, in our first drafts. I believe it’s okay to get cultural details wrong in your first draft. It’s okay if stereotypes emerge. It just means that your experience is limited, that you’re human. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That’s certainly true for me. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
I kind of just write what I like to write. I’m thankful that readers of different ages seem to connect to my stories. I don’t consciously think about age demographics when I’m working on my comics. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
Superman has been around for so long; he’s been around for, what, eight decades now? And he goes through these different eras where different aspects of who he is get emphasized. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
Writing for myself and writing for another artist are two very different experiences. When I handle both the story and the art, I have full control. I can endlessly tweak every word and every line. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
When I first started making comics, I was living with a bunch of guys, old college friends. We had this deal. At the end of each day, they would ask me how far I’d gotten on my comic. And if I hadn’t made my goals, they were supposed to make me feel really bad about myself. They happily obliged. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
Boxers’ was more time consuming simply because it was longer, but ‘Saints’ was definitely harder. I think it’s just hard to talk about faith in general. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
In the early 90s, I was finishing up my adolescence. I visited my local comic-book store on a weekly basis, and one week I found a book on the stands called ‘Xombi,’ published by Milestone Media. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I’m familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
It’s just nerve-wracking in general to write ‘Superman,’ right? I’m a life-long superhero fan, and he is the character that kicked off the entire genre. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
I was a superhero fan in the 90s, so I’m definitely familiar with John Romita, Jr. In fact, when I was in high school, I would go to local conventions and line up and get his signature. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
I never worked a job that required research. I’m not really good at it, to be honest. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
Ch’in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed feelings about him. They’re proud of the nation he created, but he was a maniacal tyrant. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
Immigrant parents dream that their children will find a place in their new home, and they willingly suffer hardships in service to that dream. That was certainly true of my parents. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there’s this temptation to make Asian characters white (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It’s basically all about self discipline, right? (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
The Green Turtle’ was created in the 1940s by a cartoonist named Chu Hing, one of the first Asian Americans to work in the American comic book industry. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
When ‘American Born Chinese’ started getting a lot of attention, I freaked out a little bit because I realized that up until then I had just been doing comics by following my gut. I didn’t really know much about plot structure or anything; I kind of just followed my gut. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
I talk about religion because it’s one of the ways human beings find power and belonging. Religion is more than just that - I think faith traditions give us ways to talk about experiences of the numinous, too - but power and belonging are a big part of it. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
It’s a big deal to reveal your friend’s deepest truth, your friend’s deepest secret. And for all of us, when we do these big things, there’s a complexity of motivation that comes behind that decision. (Gene Luen Yang Quotes)
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