Quotes About Representation

It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.

We need to educate our audience. It's so important to have diversity. Let's not fear different voices.

The absence of diverse voices leads to policies and programs that adversely impact African-Americans.

So much of what blacks and women contend with is centered in how we view, and how the world views, our bodies. Gestures, voices, affect.

Even before BuzzFeed, Asian-American faces and voices were so prevalent online as huge YouTubers.

I really want to be the black Tina Fey, where I just am able to produce my own content and produce other content for other minority filmmakers and put their voices on screen and basically be able to have free range to produce.

I don't want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard.

If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.

I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.

We have to fight twice as hard, three times as hard - not only as conservatives, but frankly, as women - to have our voices heard.

The hardest part of ghost writing other people's stories is capturing their voices so that it isn't you talking, it's them.

I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone.

I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.

I think social media has amplified a lot of voices that maybe traditional media hasn't perfectly portrayed.

Actors, like it or not, their voices carry deeply into the culture: people look towards them for attitudes, for right or wrong, and today, the mainstream media doesn't really balance the unheard.

The Freedom Caucus, like many of the members, feel like that we have too much of a top-heavy, power-based type of leadership program where the decisions are made exclusively at the top and that members voices are not heard, which means that our constituents' voices are not heard: those that we represent.

So many women don't have voices in their governments.

I think we need to raise our voices, and we need to demonstrate to the people we represent, as well as the American people, that their leaders have a responsibility to take action.

I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.

We need more female voices to come out there and do comedy.

I think the lesson is that when you give black voices a platform and the opportunity to tell our story, we will tell good stories just like anybody else.