Quotes About Representation

I know who I am, and I know what my ambitions are. If one kid sees me on TV or sees me in a movie and relates, then I'm done. That's perfectly fine. That's enough for me.

I'm not sure why it's taken so long, but I think people are relating to strong female leads.

I personally always have a hard time relating to queer characters in media because I didn't really see myself in them. They were kind of pigeonholed early on as the gay character, and they would naturally end up with the other gay character who would emerge at some point as their love interest.

I've served on the International Relations Committee.

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

One lady told me that before she saw 'Sounder' she didn't believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in the same way as white people.

People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.

It's important to tell queer stories and to show queer relationships in a very normal setting.

Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons.

I don't think you always get to see a woman on TV who is relatively neurosis-free and, while looking for a relationship, isn't man hunting and isn't cloying and isn't a fashionista.

Though I had not been offered a truckload of projects post the release of 'Mayaanadhi,' the handful that came to me had brilliant female characters that were driving forces of the story.

There are quality films being made in all languages, whether in Hindi cinema, Bengali or the south. Bollywood doesn't represent Indian cinema, per say.

I am proud to be the first Hindu American to have been elected to Congress and now the first Hindu American to run for president.

I think hip-hop doesn't give women as much of a chance as it gives guys.

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

This idea that my work is about hip-hop is a little reductive. What I'm interested in is the performance of masculinity, the performance of ethnicity, and how they intermingle across cultures.

I want people to look at me in the future and feel that there's this Asian hip-hop artist who's fresh and hot.

I've never been a mega-star. I'm more of a tastemaker of hip-hop. I try to be more of an ambassador for the era of hip-hop that I came in.

I'm not gonna force something or fake something to try to get more black people at my shows. I'm not gonna do some big hip-hop crossover.

I mean, if people still want to hire my 34-year-old fat butt for campaigns and let me be myself then I'm all for it.

To anyone in the position to hire women directors: Make the commitment.

It takes a lot of money to hire an attorney.

My first time up to bat as a showrunner, what I did was hire an all-Latinx writers room. And it's a diverse Latinx writers room - we have an Afro-Dominican and Texicans and Chileans. It's diverse within its Latinidad.