Quotes About Representation

When we do our legislation, we're not trying to figure out, 'How can I use this to run against you?' We say, 'How can we pass this bill to help both of our constituents?'

Being an androgynous model is one thing, but a lot of what we're up against is the way we stand for certain values, such as our sexualities, or if people with our look are common enough to be part of the consumer market.

As a consumer, I love nothing more than to find and support women-owned brands - and especially women of color-owned brands.

I've gotten to work with some amazing brands that, in many cases, market to female consumers.

Sometimes you can't fight change, because you're a part of it, and I feel that in the context of these films that are happening now, there is a kind of change coming in terms of how history is represented on film, and the African, and the African-American and British African experience.

People act like art is a white thing - or not for people of colour - when, really, so much culture and art comes from people of colour. I want everyone to get into what I am doing. So sometimes I don't like to work just in an art context because it feels like a lot of people aren't going to see it. I like it to be a part of everyday life.

I think effeminacy is something that's really important to talk about in the context of gay media representations and in terms of the gay experience at large.

I carry the continent of Africa on my shoulders proudly.

Why is it controversial to talk about the fact that fat people deserve to take up space and deserve to be sexy?

As a black man working in the business, it's a challenge sometimes to get some of these things and these stories told when they don't quite fit in a box or convention of what people expect of you or what you should be telling.

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.

I'm happy that just about on every other show there's a Latino somewhere present, and we're not all the cooks anymore.

It's okay, it's cool to be Indian and there are cool people that are Indian and doing really well. It's okay to be brown and cool.

It's a cool thing to see Polynesians - there's not too many of us, period - but especially doing well in American sports. It's pretty cool.

I think it's a cool thing to have kids look up to me and to know that it doesn't matter, your background or your ethnic background. If you have goals and dreams, you can achieve them. I am extremely proud to be Tongan and Samoan, and to be the first on Tour and the first in the Masters is a cool thing.

Women today are respected as athletes now and that's a really cool thing to see.

As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other battle, which is Asian Americans playing roles that aren't written for Asians, and I think that's something that completely should happen; Why can't an Asian American male just play a leading cop figure... or the Matt Damon roles?

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't sat in the corners of power.

The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy.

Being a candidate who doesn't take corporate PAC money forced me to be accountable to the people I serve and to meet them where they are.

When we are asked to bail out corporations and banks, or pass tax bills that shift billions in public dollars out of government, we must ask ourselves, who were we truly sent here to advocate for?

One thing I do not see happening is women of certain age being represented correctly. We have to evolve conceptually.