Quotes About Representation

Our party for the longest time has relied on the votes of white guys. I think that all of these candidates are going to improve our party, our policies, and our nation.

It's nice to represent a woman who can be bigger than what you see as a typical skinny actress - being funny and desirable at the same time.

I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.

The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting.

There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.

Hopefully you'll be able to make sense of what I can represent though still fail to understand.

That's what happens when you personify hopes and dreams in one person. He becomes nothing more than a literary device.

The color white is not always what it seems to be. Watch for white handkerchiefs, handmade altars, homemade gumbo, and light summer dresses.

I am only interested in art that is in some way concerned with truth. I could not care less whether it is abstract or what form it takes.' …

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

It is indeed in no way settled that the "self" is ever determinable by means of a representation of the ego. Instead, it must be acknowledged that selfhood first arises out of the grounding of Da-sein, a grounding that is carried out as an appropriation of the belonging to the call. Accordingly, the openness and grounding of the self arise out of, and as, the truth of beyng

Tokenism is a promise to pay. Democracy, in its finest sense, is payment.

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Tell me, Lady Angeline, is there a color not represented in your rather splendid riding hat? It would be a shame if there were. It would be sitting all alone on a palette somewhere, feeling rejected and dejected.

it is an allegory of our times.

It then becomes clear and certain to him that he does not know a sun and an earth, but only an eye that sees a sun, a hand that feels an earth; that the world around him is there only as representation, in other words, only in reference to another thing, namely that which represents, and this is himself.

The world is my representation.

Il ne nous est pas parmi de parler de raison absolue, et il n'existe pas plus une raison en général qu'il n'existe un triangle en général, si ce n'est sous forme de raison abstraite, obtenue discursivement par la pensée et qui, à titre de représentation extraite d'une représentation, n'est qu'un moyen d'embrasser par l'esprit beaucoup de chose en une seule

Il mondo è una mia rappresentazione: - questa è una verità che vale in rapporto a ciascun essere vivente e conoscente, sebbene l'uomo soltanto sia capace d'accoglierla nella riflessa, astratta coscienza: e s'egli veramente fa questo, con ciò è penetrata in lui la meditazione filosofica.

perché come il mondo è da un lato, in tutto e per tutto, rappresentazione, così dall'altro, in tutto e per tutto, volontà.

on the path of objective knowledge, thus starting from the representation, we shall never get beyond the representation, i.e. the phenomenon. We shall therefore remain at the outside of things: we shall never be able to penetrate into their inner nature, and investigate what they are in themselves, in other words, what they may be by themselves.

When you read the words of Langston Hughes you are reading the words of a Black Gay man. When you read the words of Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Angelina Weld Grimké, poets of the Harlem Renaissance, you are reading the words of Black Lesbians. When you listen to the life-affirming voices of Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey, you are hearing Black Lesbian women. When you see the plays and read the words of Lorraine Hansberry, you are reading the words of a women who loved women deeply.