Quotes About Representation

Providing accurate portrayals of characters is something I want to pay ample attention to.

Mistaken identity, of course, has been the province of much postcolonial fiction. An important feature of this writing is the manner in which misrecognition has haunted all cognition.

Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites.

We are proving that Latinos have the power to connect with an audience on a global level without having to leave our identity behind.

I'm incredibly pleased to be working with Marco Palmieri and Tor Books on 'The Geek Feminist Revolution.' This was an exciting book to pitch and is proving to be a lot of fun to put together.

We're seeing more of the female psyche on screen than we used to.

In our culture the way women have been represented in American film had a pretty big impact on my self-esteem and I'm sure it did on a lot of other girls. I think they have a greater psychological impact that anybody's willing to talk about.

Power is not just about the chair. The public is power.

But I understand the importance of being a brown, Muslim woman of faith who is in the public eye, because there aren't that many of us.

When you are in the public eye as a person of color, you are given very little room to mess up.

I've never been a person that has had fear of, like, 'Oh, I don't want to be the poster child for all black lesbian women.' I don't know. I want to be someone in the public eye that they can be proud of.

There is a role that Muslims in the public eye play: to reassure people that we are OK.

With any minority group, it takes a strong presence in the public eye to make a change because everything nowadays is social media.

I'm in the public eye, so I have a responsibility as an actress to my generation. I think that's what acting's all about.

I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it's really an interest in the image.

Apparently, the prerequisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption 'I am gay'. I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected!

I'm a public figure. It's up to me to take the initiative to explain things. It's my responsibility.

Global governance needs recalibrating so it works in the public interest of all the world's citizens - not just for the few.

It has been the greatest privilege of my adult and public life to have served, for 32 years, as the Member of Parliament for our local Highlands and Islands communities.

I am a big fan of seeing more women in public life.

I'm intrigued by being in public office.

In Rwanda, which has gone through a devastating civil war and has a per-capita income of $16 per year, half of members of Parliament are women. But in most countries, including the United States, theres a paucity of women in public office.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.

Today, parliaments are more important because of the need of legitimacy, of the popular legitimacy, of public opinion legitimacy of politics. Parliaments are, at the end of the day, the only true legitimacy.