Quotes About Representation

For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.

I lead by example. Everybody sees it.

I'm very selective about my scripts and about how I am projected on the screen.

People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it's so much more than self-expression.

My parents have taught me the value of reading and self-love through books that have characters that look like me and talk like me.

I truly consider sports stars as the real stars because they represent our country, which makes them really stand apart. I don't think I can be one of them, and I just find them extremely confident and self-made.

It just so happens that I'm trans. It shouldn't have to be like 'Oh, that's the trans model selling the trans clothes.'

In the Senate, I will put people before politics.

The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.

I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.

To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.

I am proud to be a woman in the Senate.

When I'm elected to the Senate, I will continue to meet with all Marylanders, whether we agree on every issue or not.

I was appointed to the Senate, and it has been my job to serve in the Senate and then to earn the vote of Minnesotans.

If I made decisions around here based on the election, I wouldn't be a very good senator.

How we present ourselves matters a lot, and that's every American, not just at the senior levels.

We were sent here to hold government accountable.

Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.

Hollywood screwed up in the past. They made Asians the other - a separate group that could only hang out with each other.

In general, we as women, but also Latinas, we're always kind of serving other characters.

For me, there's nothing more important than serving my constituents and winning the House.

I remember watching 'Sesame Street' as a kid and loving that there were Latino characters on there.

I've been Austin almost half my life. In almost every public setting, that's why I'm there - to be Austin Aries.

Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies.