Quotes About Representation

You are not electing your parliamentarian or your MP to the corridors of power. You are electing them to the corridors of responsibility.

It's my job to take the fans sitting at home on their couch and put them in my shoes.

Mayors are accountable in the way a council is not. Who can name their local councillor?

We've got to pass legislation which will allow people to have access to competent counsel no matter who they are.

If people want to take the time to vote, they should be able to, and their vote should be counted.

People don't wake up to go to vote and then have their ballot not counted.

A friend of mine kind of revealed to me that idea that there has been countless Supermen and Batman. But I'm the first person to play Black Lightning. It's exciting to originate a character.

Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music.

When I saw that Laverne Cox was on the cover of 'Time' magazine, I totally lost it. It was a coup for the girls!

I was 19, 20. I didn't know what to do. I knew one thing: I never saw myself on TV or anyone like me, and I wanted to be that for someone else. I think the most courageous thing I did was ask for help.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

Would I like to see more women in the courts? Yep.

When you're editor-in-chief of a big magazine, you cannot be a cover girl for MAC; you cannot be the face of Givenchy - of course you can't; it's doesn't go with the job.

Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.

I think that the fact that we had a trans woman on the cover of 'Vanity Fair'... is only good for the trans community. I can't imagine that the more we talk about this that it's not just doing everybody a lot of good.

'Essence' is political. I grew up on the magazine, looking at the covers. Seeing ourselves on the cover is political.

I mean, casting gender non-conforming people in campaigns and editorials and on covers of magazines is a risk for any business because there's going to be controversy, but I think they need to take the risk and believe they're moving in the right direction.

I think that our country would probably be better-served if we had people that were wearing work boots... crafting legislation.

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage with issues creates a context in which it can seem like one.

My image is the creation of media.

I believe it is incredibly important for women and people of color to become the builders and creators in technology. In order to do so, we need to know how to code or, at least, know the language of coding - what I like to call 'code speak.'

I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

I don't see how I ever could have thought that having an all-white crew for a special about race would be OK.