Quotes About Representation

We just thought that bands from the U.S. in general were just really boring, and they didn't represent what we felt pop music should be.

What I say about myself, black footballers or black pop stars is that we have been 'elevated out of blackness.' Because when people see us, they don't see us as being black. These are the issues that we should address.

I think that because we have these big female pop stars, people forget that women and marginalized people are so underrepresented in this business.

Alternative culture has always had a populace within the black and brown community.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

When I was younger I didn't feel I was represented in popular culture - you couldn't get a brown doll in the shops and you didn't see many brown people on TV.

What we're seeing is a backlash against any attempt, whether from the world of scholarship or popular culture, to paint non-white people back into the British past. Those of us who write about this history have long been familiar with this.

Every time I step out there in the Octagon, I aim to do Australia proud. And this isn't for popularity or a fan base; it has never been for that. It's just because I love my country, and I want to show the world what we're doing down here.

If you're not hiring from some groups of the population, then you're obviously missing out.

Well, it's very clear that the Arab population is rising because they'd like to have a say in the running of their affairs, running of their government, and this is very legitimate.

It's extremely important that we elect people that look like the population they serve.

Though we did have a few main characters in 'Avatar' who represented the non-benders of the world, most of the people we focused on were benders. However, benders are the minority in their world population.

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.

I live in rural New Hampshire, and we are, frankly, short on people who are black, gay, Jewish, and Hispanic. In fact, we're short on people. My town has a population of 301.

Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.

The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population.

In a population of over one billion, there are 12-15 names that have the potential to be main leads in Hindi films. I am within the minority of the minority.

We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting.

I come from Israel, where most of the population is dark-haired, dark-skinned, dark-eyed.