Quotes About Representation

You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

I just don't think there's a lot of support for the woman's voice in cinema, and it becomes really difficult to raise that money and start again every time.

You now have the potential of 200 people deciding who ends up being elected president every single time.

I've tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I've represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show.

I think honestly, believe it or not, that Dude, Where's My Car? in a way represents its time better than almost any film made around that.

I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it.

We're in a different time right now, and I think we're ready to see a different type of female hero.

Every time I see myself in print or on TV, I feel like a little white girl. I feel fat.

Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

I just have a hard time displaying things.

It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show.

We found the time and we put in the effort because being a label that different women can wear is really important to us.

It sounds formulaic now, but at the time, I was interested in the difference between the thing and the representation of the idea of the thing - the space between the two.

The African-American community has been let down by our politicians. They talk good around election time, and after the election, they say, see ya later, I'll see you in four years.

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?

Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system.