Quotes About Representation

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?... Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223... And pray, why would this number interest us? It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.

To this day, most attempts to stage the history of transatlantic slavery in museums have stood out through their vacuity. In them, the slave appears, at best, as the appendix to another history, a citation at the bottom of a page devoted to someone else, to other places, to other things. For that matter, were the figure of the slave really to enter into the museum, such as it exists nowadays, the museum would automatically cease to be.

If I don't make it, don't let them cast some asshole to play me in the movie version of this

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and be loved back or not -- mostly not; to be beaten up or killed; to appear as a face on the wall of Meurseault's cell--

My point is, the Senate is filled not just with lawyers, but with old white men. Chapter 28 The Angel and the Devil Actors often claim not to read their own reviews.

I believe that the vividness experienced in the reading of words is automatically modulated by the constant activation of the reasoning centers of the brain that are used in the process of cocreating the representation of reality the author has intended. By contrast, the visceral vividness portrayed on television has the capacity to trigger instinctual responses similar to those triggered by reality itself -- and without being modulated by logic, reason, and reflective thought.

It is surely significant that the adults who feature in children's books are rarely, if ever, Regional Sales Managers or Building Services Engineers.

Certainly travelers had returned from the heart and tried to represent what they had seen, but love was in the end like a species of rare colored butterfly, often sighted, but rarely conclusively identified.

I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me.

I wanted to say that the literature may say that, but that literature doesn't.

Stemplots, sometimes called 'stem-and-leaf' diagrams, can often be used as an alternative to histograms for representing numerical data.

The female form lends itself best to represent matter because both create life within themselves. The male form lends itself best to represent soul because both create life outside themselves.

The ordinal directions are represented by the moon (the north-east), the sun (the south-west), fire (the north-west) and wind (the south-east).

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust

Female singers should just be sprinkled into airplay now and again as garnish. "'The tomatoes of our salad are the females,'" Ruthanna said. "That was his exact quote. And that's why they call it Tomato-gate.

The math is not the territory.

Canadians believe that MPs do a better job pursuing the interest of their political parties than of those they represent,

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.