Quotes About Representation

I'm always excited when I make it on anyone's list - even if it's for affirmative action. My attitude is, 'Am I the token woman on this list? Because I'll take it.'

I often find myself in situations where I am the token black person. It can feel like this enormous weight.

I'm not a token black guy.

I'm not just a token Muslim.

Why would I want to walk the runway for a brand to be their token plus-size girl when they're not even making my size?

So many times, you get sent scripts where it's, like, the token chick, where the woman is just there to serve the man in the film.

I sat down with CBS, and we talked about me developing a show for them. At the time, I was meeting with a lot of networks. And I told them, 'I don't want to be acting on your show as the token black guy. I want to do something that will change a network and will change the way people view African-Americans on TV.'

Usually when you're Asian and you're on set, you're the only Asian there. Either you're the token Asian or you're the Asian sidekick.

Prior to 'Tokyo Drift,' the iconic perception of Asians in Hollywood films has been either the Kung Fu guy, the Yakuza guy or some technical genius. It used to be such a joke, to be laughed at rather than with.

I have worked hard to represent people of all backgrounds and I have always done so in a spirit of tolerance.

I don't want to say I see myself playing for England. I played with the likes of Daniel Sturridge and Danny Welbeck and Tom Cleverley. It is nice to see them being given the chance to play for their country.

Our minds have to translate magic into symbols we understand.

But there was something very appealing about that Fe-Male . I saw myself in it - in the hyphen.

Being a UN Goodwill Ambassador was really cramping her style.

Fashion models and financial models are similar. They bear a similar relationship to everyday world. Like supermodels, financial models are idealized representations of the real world, they are not real, they don't quite work the way that the real world works. There is celebrity in both worlds. In the end, there is the same inevitable disappointment" - Satyajit Das, Traders, Guns & Money

Symbolize and summarize.

when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you enter the world of the cartoon , you see yourself.

Just as pictures and the intervals between them create the illusion of time through closure, words introduce time by representing that which can only exist in time--sound.

Our symbols aren't supposed to matter, but that's wishful thinking—symbols always matter.

This nation is really ready for a woman president. It's taken time, but we're ready.

We have a female prime minister [Theresa May] here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she's wonderful. I think it's the best thing that's happened to us in a long time.

My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes.

I think it's a great time to be a person of color and with talent. And actually, to be a woman as well. Our show is one of the most diverse television shows on television right now.

I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.