Quotes About Representation

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

Lots of women candidates get compared to one another because there's so few women in office and positions in corporate America.

I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.

Political positions do not belong to the officeholder; they belong to the people that place us in office.

I'm an advocate for women to become more aware of the different positions in the music industry.

I'm sure it's more difficult for women to make movies, especially because, in general, the kind of movies women want to make aren't necessarily going to be blockbusters. But you know, there are so few women in so many positions of power.

America has a black president, but there are no black studio heads, and there just aren't that many black people working anywhere on film sets, let alone in positions of power in Hollywood. That's what needs to change.

I think diversity and having women and people of color in key positions is really important.

I think the more women we have in leadership positions, the more women will see examples, can see themselves in those roles.

We want to see women in more power positions, not just in front of the screen but behind the screen as well.

The more women and people of color who find positions of influence, the more women and people of color who will find positions of influence. So we need critical mass, and we're still working toward that. I won't be satisfied until we're at the 50-50 place, where we ought to be.

I would like to think that there are more women in positions of power, to actually get these projects off the ground that are more balanced, where the story is about men and women.

We need more women in positions of power so that women's issues are thought of more, because a room full of men in government and in power don't think the type of things needed to make a change.

One thing that became abundantly clear right away was that the more women you have in positions of power, the bigger the opportunity you have to serve women. If a woman is not in the room to speak about what a woman needs, then those decisions aren't being made.

I realized there wasn't a structure in place at the time to have female mentors in positions above you. If there were women above me, they had gone through such a difficult time to get there that they had internalized the idea that women share the same space in the writers' room.

I want to play positive role models - women who mean something to other women.

The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority.

It doesn't really matter how famous I am. What's important is that Bulgaria is represented in a good and positive way all around the world.

Before social media actually came into play, there were only journalists, who would represent you. If I went to a party, I was written about negatively or sometimes in a positive way as well but it never was the actual thing.

I appreciate the positivity of those 'year of the woman' articles - it's good to get that energy out there - but at the same time, in Hollywood it's not happening yet.

For me personally, I've always tried to exude positivity and I feel that it's important for all types of experiences of black men to be seen.

I want to burn as a beacon of possibility. I don't want nobody to misconstrue the commercial success I've had as anything other than an example of what black music is capable of. And what it's capable of is being more than just black. I'm not black or white anymore. I'm Cee Lo Green.

First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.

When I post pictures, I get such good response; they don't want to see me just in Indian clothes.