Quotes About Representation

We're doing exactly what the Republicans don't want: getting more people involved in our democracy. Giving more Americans a voice in their future.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

Conservatives, they're like the Republicans to me. They don't do much. They have this whole hierarchy and boys' club thing going on. That doesn't help the regular person.

I operate on the assumption that as a member of Congress, presently, I represent everybody - Republicans, Democrats, independents and, yes, some people who don't care to participate.

I've got the most beautiful district. I can understand why Republicans want it.

I am very close to a number of actresses who are trans and hungry for parts.

As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?

There are still movies where females are just there to be cool, or they are there to lambaste their husbands and scold. But female comedy characters are changing for the better.

'Mulan' is an iconic story for the Asian American community.

When we first started, we all had icons: So Perrie had a flower, Jade had a bow-tie, Jesy had a boombox and I had a cap!

Youth icons are born through beauty pageants.

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.

I identify as a Georgian who wants to do right by Georgia.

I like being able to have things that identify you in a brand without blatantly showing a logo.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

We love rom-coms, but it's getting to where we don't identify with any of the women in them.

Most people don't know this, but I never wanted Man Repeller to be about me. It was titled that to identify a genre of women.

It's like one of the best things that can ever happen to you as an actor: to have your story reach people, even if they don't look like you and even though they may not be able to identify with a black male; they can still identify with what's happening to you.

If LGBT people can identify with our story, if they think, 'The Golden Lovers are my team,' I'm good with that.

I'm black and white, so either, sometimes, you're not considered by the breakdown of the script: you're not 'black enough' for this role. Or you're not 'white enough' for this role. Or, like, looking up to people, who do I identify with? And not seeing Barbies that maybe look like me.

When I go to the movies, I'm expected to identify with all of the characters, and most of them are white. But when you put a black character in there, somehow the white audience isn't expected to identify with them. That's a problem.

A lot of kids can't identify with the things I've done and where I'm from and who I am as an individual. That's why I've tried to be a person and live my life in a way that can be identified by all cultures.

I definitely identify with female leads more; I identify with real female leads, people who are flawed and have issues and make mistakes, so that the characters represent what I'm about.

Black culture, to me, is so important and I identify with young black women.