Quotes About Representation

I've been at every American Legion and VFW post in my district.

I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds.

I can't think of anything better than being considered a poster girl for intelligent women.

I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it?

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.

I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts.

The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot.

On the outside, America looks like this great melting pot, but on the inside, there's this segregation in American cinema. Why does a Latino film have to be for Latinos? Why is a black film just for black people? Why?

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

I often use nameless places in my work as a way of allowing the readers to create more of the novel and to make it potentially about their experiences, what they know, a city that they have perhaps seen on television.

I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'

In my case, I never really thought about what it would be like in the WWE. I never thought I could make it to the WWE? especially being a Black man who is 5-foot-6 and 160 pounds.

A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it's just pouring off the screen. Because they don't often get a chance to work, and when they do, they don't usually get a chance to work with other black people.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We've always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

The Conservative Party must be a party for all of its members.

The Conservative Party has abandoned conservatives.

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.

I think we are living in an age where we really need to have bilingual leaders so that we can communicate with our constituents.

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.