Quotes About Representation

I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves

I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

The Electoral College was a concession to slave owners, an affair of both mathematical and political calculation.

Girls are important: "Remember that very few stories are of great interest without the rustle of a skirt.

linear narrative was not doing a very good job representing life as I experienced it,

Why, then, don't we hear the same cries of "cultural appropriation" when Archie Comics' Jewish co-CEOs green-light Archie's murder in defense of a gay senator or Marvel's Hispanic editor decides to make Captain America black and Thor into a woman? Why, especially, is a non-Nordic male allowed to rub his grubby fingers all over an ancient Nordic male god to suit his half-assed "progressive" agenda?

Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

Everything is a metaphor for everything else.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics it's something to do with the social structure of society.

All the Democrats who voted for him [Clarence Thomas] were from the South, the opposite of what had happened in 1967, when Southern Democratic senators opposed [Thurgood] Marshall. By 1991, blacks had become a core constituency of Southern senators, and Democrats feared alienating them with a vote against Thomas.

Before Sonia Sotomayor's appointment, a total of 110 justices had been named to the United States Supreme Court since its 1789 creation. All but 4 of these justices were white men, reflecting the traditional power base of the nation. Beginning with African American Thurgood Marshall in 1967, the groundbreakers navigated the public expectations and internal rituals of a tradition bound institution.

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.

The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is often conceived as a matter of remedying injustice and exclusiveness through doing justice to individual artists by allowing their work into the canon, which will thereby be more complete, but fundamentally unchanged.

As a representative institution, the U.S. Congress embodies the temper of its time. When the nation is polarized and civic commonality dwindles, Congress reflects that image back to the American people.

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!

One task is to identify what for some time I have referred to as the "epistemic politics" that often sever colonial pasts from their contemporary translations

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.