Quotes About Representation

I never came across a character who was brilliant, funny, flawed and just happened to have a disability. That's why I've written 'The Amazing Edie Eckhart.'

When I first started, it was so male-heavy, so male-dominated, that on the 18th floor of the criminal courts building, which was where I worked, there were three men's bathrooms and only one women's bathroom.

I'm running because Hoosiers deserve a senator who sounds the same on the factory floor as he does on the Senate floor.

Ayanna Pressley and I would probably vote the exact same way on pretty much every vote we'd have on the floor of the House.

I remember getting flowers and champagne for being one of the first black artists on MTV. That was a big deal.

I am Chinese. I speak fluent Mandarin. And I go, 'Man, it's about time a Chinese person could step up to a Hollywood screen, and international screen, and help save the world.'

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

Films with predominantly white casts can come in any form, tell any story, big or small. For black films, you have the light, fluffy rom-coms or 'Madea' movies, and then you have the black-torture awards movie.

Parts that are desexed, matronly - to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.

I like to see the flag up flying proudly. When I'm in space I represent that flag.

Paralympics has always had to push the media into it being about sport and not focusing on the disability.

Black folk have been 'the other' in shows and movies and in life for quite a long time. Not from our perspective, we're not 'the other,' but from other people's perspective we have been 'the other.'

There is a black folk music audience. They're just very small.

I have not seen 'The Lion King.' I don't do black folklore. And I'm black.

I have always been an independent voice for the folks in my district.

It's nice to see how much the mainstream fashion community has been so accepting of it. It's very exciting to see that folks finally want to make plus-size mainstream.

The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.

Trans folks are going to rise up for their moments and their money!

Any time you give the average person the opportunity to explain themselves on a national scale, they're always going to sound like a fool.

All the Asian people respect me and watch me. But I don't want people to think of me as an Asian player. I am just a football player.

There aren't many football players other than kickers who are Latin.

I would go on record saying that there is probably one gay or bi-person in every football team. They're there, they are 100 per cent there. I think people that are gay or from that community definitely are very worried about having to shoulder the responsibility of being the first. I think once the first comes out, there would be loads.

I think it's important that we try to showcase what we're about as women footballers.

We left, I think, a footprint in FIBA basketball. Proud of it.