Quotes About Representation

Do you know I keep a picture of Hattie McDaniel in my closet in an 8-by-10 frame?

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

My goal is to play at Euro 2016 with France.

I think I'm a face of a franchise. I can make an impact.

I feel some responsibility, being one of the few women directors who are being given opportunities. Sometimes, that makes me want to take on some big franchise because I want to show people that women can do it.

Being the face of the franchise, everyone is watching you. You have to be able to lead other men. It's a lot of responsibility.

We do have a black president, and that means a lot. People ask, 'What has he done?' What he's done is change the color up, which you see on the screen. When the head of the free world is black, there's got to be some sort of spin-off from it.

Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

In Scripture, a name often connotes purpose, authority, makeup, and character. In fact, a person's name is frequently seen as an equivalent of that person.

My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.

I was the face of Louisville, as a freshman.

My parents would watch movies like 'Big' and 'Freaky Friday,' and I wanted to see that kind of story told from an African-American angle. So I had the idea for 'Little,' and then I told my parents, and we all fleshed it out together.

There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.

When you look at a mayor, Americans see mayors favorably. We are at the front line of what Americans are dealing with every day.

Diversity in books is a civil rights frontier.

I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.

Americans feel frustrated, distanced, and disenfranchised from our elected government. We deserve more: a government in which we truly all have a voice.

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

I think women, we are very interesting. We have a lot to say, and sometimes it's frustrating how all the lead parts are for men.

I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little frustrating because there aren't that many roles out there for height-challenged actors.

It's frustrating to see that people still get shocked when they see a woman doing action.

Obviously there aren't many opportunities for someone who looks like me to walk in fashion shows. It's incredibly frustrating.

I know when I was a kid I saw only one color of beauty, I saw only one kind in all the billboards and all magazines and the video clips. One kind and it was so frustrating.

I can't point my finger on a 'dream role,' but the days that I'm able to fulfill the stories of the 'hood/barrio on film, those will be great days.