Quotes from Eugene Lee Yang

How do we innovate and make things that challenge the notion of being stuck in a place of just being popular?

A lot of times I go to a comedy show, I sit there and wait for the comedian to run out of ideas and look at me and make an Asian joke. Which is very different for blacks and Latinos. You can't say certain things because everyone is cognizant of when things are and should be offensive. Asians don't have that luxury.

I've always presented as a very cisgender male and that was part of the reason I was able to cover so easily... I was always in such a strictly binary environment growing up. I was never given an opportunity to sort of play into more genderqueer fashion.

We have to express ourselves in the most true and authentic way.

My time online has shown me that the viewers will respond most to authentic storytelling.

The viral landscape is shifting and changing.