Quotes About Representation

What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.

I definitely carry a little bit of a burden with me, being a gay athlete going to the Olympics. I think that there's pressure on me... It presents an amazing opportunity, and I think that it kind of gives us a chance to shed people's misconceptions and just kind of, like, break down barriers.

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

Now that Donald Trump has won the presidency despite losing the popular vote, there's a growing cry to rethink, or even abolish, the electoral college. This would be a mistake.

There is no office now closed to a Jew, including the presidency.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

The small moments I've had to talk with President Obama, I've told him, 'I get it.' His presidency was in some ways almost overshadowed by the fact that he was the first black president.

I'm here to say enough is enough, and that folks who look like me should feel that there is an opportunity for them in the Republican Party. I'm proud to be in this party, I'm proud to be endorsed by President Trump.

President Trump needs a senator who will lead the charge for him.

I head a nation of a million presidents.

Frankly, Christians have not always made good presidents.

Presidents are only seen on August 15 and January 26. Who knows what they do for five years other than this?

When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is some kind of presumption of autobiography in everything you produce. And I find that really maddening, and I resist that.

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

I've always wanted to do an Indian film, but I didn't want to come to India and pretend that I could play an average Bombay girl.

Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't.

I don't hate people who colour-blind cast, but I hate people who colour-blind cast and pretend that they're not, who pretend that these bodies on stage don't actually carry specific meaning.

The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.

I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for T.V.

Some people want to live in a world much prettier than the one I depict. But it exists, and I talk about it because it exists.

I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me.

I think it's great that you have inspirational female roles, that it's not just the pretty girl on the arm of a man.

I think I look pretty good. And I know there are human beings my age who look the way I do. There must be stories about us - not just about people who are young and good-looking.

I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling about, 'cause I read comics as a kid. Someone drew me, and actually did a pretty good job!