Quotes About Representation

The states have never had a voice when it comes to immigration or population policy. I think that needs to change.

Women are not diversity. We're half the population.

Stop ignoring disabled people, we make up 22 per cent of the population. We're here and we're worth listening to.

Ultimately, my goal is to inspire little brown girls that look like me, that are sitting on the porch wearing cornrows.

I am Port Arthur. I'm the president of Port Arthur.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

What I find really interesting is, whenever you see the person who gives you the portrait of yourself, the portrait seems to be a combination of their face and your face.

I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.

Many people see my early work simply as portraits of black and brown people. Really, it's an investigation of how we see those people and how they have been perceived over time.

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.

I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television.

There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.

I don't try to portray some lifestyle that I'm not living.

I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is successful, it just further opens the door.

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

I think, as an actress, whether you want to or not, whether you're ready for it or not, people are going to look at what you're doing, and they are going to look up to you, and it's not even really about you; it's who you portray on the screen.

I wanted to write a show about an estate that wasn't sad or morbid, like a lot of shows portray working class life to be.

I really needed a show like 'Jane' when I was growing up, so being able to portray a positive Latina character means a lot to me because I feel like it's helping me to contribute to someone's dreams.

Movies and TV are America's No. 1 export. So if our No. 1 export is all male, all white, then there's only one point of view. And I just think it's really important that as Americans - I'm a new American, but I am an American - that we don't portray ourselves to the world so one-sided and exclusive.

It would be impossible to find an actor to portray Om Puri, so I wouldn't even attempt it.

As someone who is non-binary gender identifying, I feel a particular responsibility to portray members of my community on stage and on screen, not only as fully fleshed-out characters who are integral to the plot, but as characters whose gender identity is just one of many parts that make up the whole person.

Society doesn't portray transsexual people in a very positive light.

It still baffles my brain that I actually get to portray a character on American television that's this gay, femme-y Filipino guy.