Quotes About Representation

Drag Race' was, like, my outlet and finally being able to see myself in television and that was through Manila Luzon, who was a 'Drag Race' contestant. Manila was the first Asian queer person that I ever saw on mainstream media and 'Drag Race' really did that for me.

After the 'Fallon' set, I had a lot of queer people message me about how much it meant to see a queer perspective on late night TV.

We need folks who are queer or trans, to have an opportunity to tell their story.

Off the top of my head, Alan Cumming was probably my biggest inspiration, as an actor and as a queer person.

When I was growing up, there weren't that many queer girls of colour making music. So I just wanted to be able to exist, just to be that, without putting too much emphasis on it.

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

As an actor, it was important to me to play gay characters because, growing up, it was something I never really saw done on television and in film, and I was questioning why there weren't more people like me.

If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.

I don't see a lot of narratives written where a woman who looks like me gets to be beautiful and sexualized and upwardly mobile, middle-class, funny, quirky. They're very seldom written.

A lot of times, black people were extremely cool, and that's how we've been commodified in TV and film. But now we're starting to see an upswing of material where we're like, 'It's cool to be quirky and weird and smart.'

The Republican Party needs to, first of all, quit electing people in primaries that have prehistoric notions about women's issues.

'The Daily Show,' which was created by women, Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg, has earned quite a bit of ink for the fact that it's written mostly by men.

Me and Jason Kidd are with the same agency so I talk to him quite a bit.

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

I have absolutely no problem being thought of as an action chick because, quite frankly, very few women have ever done that.

I'm mixed race, and it's often hard for me to fit into period pieces.

I don't want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn't limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation.

The work that needs to be done now is to diversify the picture of LGBTQ people so that people can see that we come from all races, different genders; we have trans people.

It should be very normal to see people of different races and ethnic minorities playing different parts.

What I don't like to see is when models of different races come in and out of fashion.

Obama is not an African American president, but a president of all Americans. It doesn't matter if you are black, white, Hispanic, he's the president of all races.

I'm the guy that can play all the different races and get away with it.

There's always women of many different races on my shows, and there are always women who look many different ways, but there is still a size thing in this industry. It's hard. I mean to have to say, 'I want a larger woman to be an actor on my shows.' Or, 'Find me a larger woman,' is almost insulting to me.