Quotes About Representation

When I go to shoots, the young models are excited to see me. It proves they can have long and successful careers, too.

I do my best to choose projects that I believe highlight different things or at least provide some sort of progression for people of color.

I'm one of the only members of the U.S. Senate who isn't a millionaire. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a millionaire. But there ought to be a little economic diversity in the Senate and I try to provide it.

The systematic association between love, marriage, and bliss was different from nineteenth-century representations, in which love was more often tragic rather than a happy feeling.

Every time they have somebody born in the movies, it is a little boy. They never have little girls being born. What makes boys so great and woooonnnderfullll? I can do anything a boy can do

The tragedy for the millions of new lower-caste voters is that their representatives, for whom they dutifully vote en masse, have looted the public coffers and become immensely rich and powerful while mouthing slogans about the oppression of their people.

If the office in the Rua dos Douradores represents Life for me, the second floor room I live in on that same street represents Art. Yes, Art, living on the same street as Life but in a different room; Art, which offers relief from life without actually relieving one of living.

It is when the individual's faith is weak, not strong, that he will be afraid of an honest fictional representation of life; and when there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the supernatural is apt gradually to be lost.

To not see black or Latina women as famous in my industry is crazy! I have to talk about it.

I mean, as a coach, as a leader of an organization, you represent your fan base and everybody that works and all that, and that's passion.

Wish I had a PR team. That sounds very fancy.

I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.

There are some fantastic parts for older actors.

Democrats don't win farm country, but I want to change that.

Maine farmers are critical to our state, and they deserve an advocate in the Senate.

I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.

Democracy fascinates me.

I don't believe that fashion should exclude people - I have always been about making it accessible to everyone.

The fashion industry needs to breed a whole different way of thinking. We need more diverse people working in all facets of the industry.

My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.

The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body.

There are a lot of fat women on TV. I know. I've made my living playing them.

There are, of course, fat characters in books out there, some of them quite enduring and famous. But they tend to be creatures of young-adult or commercial fiction.

I set out to tell my story, which is based on my family. Dr. Cosby told his story in 'The Cosby Show.' The comparisons stop there in terms of my creation of the show. We just both happen to have black fathers at the center of it.