Quotes About Representation

What we put in and leave out of our stories tells us something about who we are.

bear witness. To what life is—does—and to speak for people who cannot speak. That you are simply a kind of conduit.

this black queer man represented a different kind of radicalism than the masculinist politics of black male preachers, they maintained).

In his novels from beginning to end, Dickens is making the same point always: that to the English governing classes the people they govern are not real.

You can't be what you can't see.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

The best cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy.

It is not enough to fill your juries, your advisory panels, with creative artists. You must put us in positions of policy control.

No taxation without representation.

To be a fashionable woman is to know yourself, know what you represent, and know what works for you. To be "in fashion" could be a disaster on 90 percent of women. You are not a page out of Vogue.

Women belong in the house... and the Senate.

One man, one vote.

The Ugly American

I now know the color of fear — it's brown.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

But the brain's representation of the body has another major implication: because we can depict our own body states, we can more easily simulate the equivalent body states of others.

The ability to generate images opened the way for organisms to represent the world around them, a world that included every possible kind of object and other whole organisms; and, just as important, it allowed organisms to represent the world inside each of them. Before the emergence of mapping and images and minds, organisms could acknowledge the presence of other organisms and of external objects and respond accordingly.

How to render three dimensions in two, the world in planar spaces. It's the central challenge for every artist, Naima. Naima stepped back, reexamined her photo. Artist? she thought. An artist?

Senators will also have been pleased to witness the declining importance of the people—

You write about me and I will make sure that all hell comes in your direction. I have my life. I have my experiences. And you have no right at all to appropriate my story, turn me into a cultural stereotype, simply to embellish your own view of the world.

We've already agreed that I can't write about Ahmet or Pranav. So presumably I can't write about Maureen or Sky either . . . because they're both women! Or Lucky because he's a dog! At the end of the day, if I listened to you, I'd only write about myself! A book full of middle-aged white writers describing middle-aged white writers being murdered by middle-aged white writers!

I am very clear that Pashtun rights should be provided.

As breadwinners, providers, mentors, counselors, parents, grandmothers, teachers, doctors, nurses, and more, Black women and their invaluable contributions to Georgia and our country must be compensated.

Girls Who Code is all about providing role models. You can't be what you can't see.