Quotes About Representation

While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.

As an actress, to get to work on a project where the main focus is the female voice is rare!

It's far too rare an experience for Asian American girls to see themselves in media.

If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.

If you were a computer and read all the AI articles and extracted out the names that are quoted, I guarantee you that women rarely show up. For every woman who has been quoted about AI technology, there are a hundred more times men were quoted.

For so long, the fashion industry has designed almost exclusively for a particular woman with particular measurements, and they've never really been challenged on it. We're all consumers, yet we're rarely given a voice within this industry that dictates what we wear.

Black women are the most passionate commentators, and even as black female geeks and nerds, they are rarely acknowledged.

You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.

The Paralympics have for too long been considered the poor cousin of the Olympics. It's always run after the main games and rarely gets anything like the media coverage.

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

I get so tickled when that pilot happens to be an African American because I rarely see that. The same is true when I go to find restaurants. I mean, most places I go, I kind of have some idea who the chef is, which is why I want to go.

I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of people who look like me is so rarely captured in big, mainstream American fiction that you tend to sort of empathize with any character of color who pops up.

I never really thought about the fact that most of the times I saw Black Panther, he was in New York or in some American city doing something cool with the Avengers. I mean, he's the Prince of Wakanda, but we rarely saw him in Wakanda.

Alan Carr is an out and proud gay man but there isn't a famous bisexual equivalent - it's a lot rarer.

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.

I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point where it's not such a rarity to see a person of color be the hero of a story, so that it can just be a story and not have to carry so much weight.

The reason why we have 19 percent women in places like Congress is because we don't run at the same rate as men. And I think one of the things we're starting to realize is we have to step into the arena.

Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?

When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.

When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group.

There's so much black content on multiple platforms, and it's all getting great ratings. If you think about the Oscars snubbing 'Straight Outta Compton,' in a way, that kicked all of this off.

I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can't side with. I think that's been the problem.

I didn't grow up seeing faces of patriots, emotional and raw and gritty, who looked like me.