Quotes About Representation

The more exposure any big comic with a disability gets will open more doors for the rest of us and help change people's attitudes.

I've always made the case that a baseball locker room is simply an extension of society. Every type of person you have in your large office environment is also represented in an MLB clubhouse.

So many women characters are extensions of male fantasy.

I've already got 10,000 more eyes on me because I am of color and they're going to see what I can do in the top series. That's enough pressure in itself, so I don't need to add extra pressure.

It would be extraordinary if the BBC were to make me the first black 'Doctor Who;' it would be extraordinary.

I know so many extraordinary women who I never get to see represented on screen, and that's shameful.

What I love about my audience is it's extremely diverse as far as the ethnicities and the ages that show up.

When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.

The more eyeballs there are on the sport, it will get more diverse.

The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.

American democracy has two faces.

Fashion is constantly changing from decade to decade, but I don't see a change in how many black faces I see on the runway, and it's something we should talk about because it's a problem.

I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.

Growing up, I didn't think it would be possible to be an actress - I didn't see a lot of Latina faces on TV or in movies. But that didn't stop me from trying. I realized early that anything I really wanted was worth working for.

In this industry, people like to look at different faces on their screens - even I do.

That makes a difference when you have all these Asian faces running then getting elected. You have some 30 people, many of them Democrats, running for Congress. When the community sees the other faces who look like them can run and win, I think it encourages them.

There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people.

The midterms are a chance for people to vote out those they believe are failing to address the concerns of citizens.

In terms of having the American people look at the court and think of it as being fair and appropriate for our nation, it helps to have women, plural, on the court.

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

There is not much we can say with absolute confidence about the early church, but we can be fairly sure that the first Christians would not have dreamed of making a likeness of Jesus.

Real change begins with citizens registering to vote, becoming active and engaged in their communities, and casting their ballot at every election for those who will fairly and accurately represent them.

There are lots of things that could be done. We could get more help from the UCI, like forcing Pro-Tour teams to have a women's equivalent.

I grew up watching the Lakers and the Dodgers and the Rams, all local men's professional teams, and never really had any women that I grew up watching.