Miss Saigon Quotes

“You are sunlight and I am moonlight. That's what Kim said to Chris.”
― Laika Constantino, Hearts On A Page, Volume Two

“American culture tends to see Asians as weak and in need of white people to come save us. That’s especially true in pop culture about the Vietnam War. The narrative is all about what Americans went through, using Vietnamese people and the setting of Vietnam as props and backdrop. There’s no concern over the interiority of the people who live there. Miss Saigon is the largest manifestation of this. It says, “You’re never going to be the hero. We cannot relate to you. You’re always going to just be the sidekick in our stories or a trigger for our feelings.”
― Jeff Yang, Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now