Quotes About Representation

I wish more women would come into films and give it the respectability it deserves.

Everybody deserves to be seen and to be heard. Regardless of whether that is your culture, your language, who you love, your ability, or the way you chose to live your life, everybody deserves to be seen and be heard.

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

If I'm going to be the black designer, I'm going to tell it my way.

The women I play don't sit in the corner eating lettuce leaves and talking about what designer shoes they have.

I want to see designers capitalize on a beauty that is not only white. I need them to stop acting like beautiful black and brown women do not exist.

You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'

I have so many friends who are designers of color.

Designers have always fawned over my skin, especially Tarun Tahiliani. I've definitely felt accepted brown skin and all. But fair girls like Shivani Kapoor were as loved too.

There aren't that many great female roles in Shakespeare - none that I'd be desperate to play.

The Great Seal has got it all - everything liberals despise is there, front and center.

Despite being a woman, somehow I have always found myself idolising male characters.

Being the house ethnic was destroying my life and my sense of myself, because I had been consigned to play every dusky maiden you have ever seen in your life in movies.

I was determined to make a movie - about families and a love story - that black women would be proud to see and which would depict them as being smart, loving, sensitive, sexy, and funny.

It is wrong if how we see women on TV is largely determined by male directors.

I knew how to be a voice for L.A., I knew how to be a voice for Detroit, I knew how to be a voice for London, I knew how to be a voice for Amsterdam.

That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.

The image of women's football has definitely changed. Now we've got to make sure it keeps developing.

I realized this is a character that I'm playing. This is 'The Crown's' version of Diana. I can bring a lot of what I want to do with this part.

There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.

Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

The way 'TATB' depicts race, and how it normalizes our differences, is actually one of the things I am most proud of.

Right now there are a lot of Angels represented. We are from all over the world. We come from different backgrounds. We all had different lives before this, so it is really interesting how a lot of different nationalities are represented, and it is super cool.

Women I've met in different countries have told me that seeing my face in magazines gives them the courage to love themselves.