Quotes About Representation

Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.

When advertisers ignore diversity, it is because they don't think the lives of others matter. There is not enough of a financial imperative for those lives to matter.

Cultivating diversity in all its forms - of our content, products, and people - is one of our most important business imperatives.

I'm not for having to support everything that's black, because I definitely don't. But I do feel like it is imperative for us to see that we are not a monolithic people.

The canon is dominated by books written by men, about men, and for men - the male voice is therefore not a particularly difficult one to impersonate.

There are racial and gender implications to how we think about what leadership looks like in the country.

Comparing Asian writers mainly to other Asian writers implies that we're all telling the same story - a disappointingly reductive view.

The idea of romantic heroes - When you say the word hero,' it implies it's someone you look up to. We talk a lot with Bridgerton' about it being female-centric, but also, what are men looking up to? What am I doing with this icon of masculinity?

America's international broadcasters are an important part of the face we present to the world.

And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again.

Not so many Armenian players are given the chance to play in the Champions League, and this is really important for me, because I want to do everything to impress the children who are watching me playing.

The Conservatives must never give the impression we exclude any group of British citizens.

In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part.

Senators, in the end, must be elected.

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.

What we have to do is get the corporations to understand you must include African-American-owned media.

It takes such little imagination to include people of colour in the stories you tell and so much more work to exclude folks.

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling world should include many different elements of life and culture. For this reason, my books will almost always contain people of faith.

'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

Given my district, it would not have been right to put together a 99-song playlist and not include Barbra Streisand. She has appeal across several demographics of the district.

The world should not be exclusive of the ideal body. It has to include all ideals, all bodies.

We need to include more writers from different backgrounds and ethnicities. We need to see different experiences instead of the same people writing the same kinds of stories.