Quotes About Representation

I feel like fashion is making steps toward diversity, but I think they could do more.

From casting to hiring to awards races like the Emmys, taking active steps toward inclusion will make for richer stories, a stronger democracy, and a better world.

What I want to do is encourage more of that, more deaf presence in TV, movies, acting, modeling - that's really what I want to work toward.

My impression is that the Academy is really sincere about moving toward a more inclusive and representative Hollywood.

I do find that when I see women who flesh out the television or film world and make it look more like the world I actually live in, I gravitate towards those characters.

I find it obvious that, in a first-past-the-post electoral system, we need to head towards the centre.

We must always strive for greater heights at the town council level to continue building the public's confidence in alternate political leaders.

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.

You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the world. But if it doesn't have a constituency, you might as well be town clerk of Toad Suck, Arkansas.

Few Americans have ever met their Congresspeople. They don't see them at the grocery store; they don't meet them at the bowling alley. They're more likely to see their representatives in photographs from the Daily Grill in Washington, D.C., than at a local town hall.

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

There aren't a lot of people from Washington that go crazy so like just to put on for the whole state feels good. Not just Seattle but all the cities and towns that are near there. It feels good to be the one to do that for them.

I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they try to question traditional notions of masculinity and the sort of toxic nature of traditional ways of presenting masculinity.

No man represents toxic white masculinity more than Donald Trump.

I just didn't see any toys that looked like me when I was a kid.

People forget that track and field is one of the hardest sports because we compete against all the world. There are many sports when you are up against only 15 or 20 countries.

Bill Nelson has demonstrated that he is a rubber stamp for the Obama administration and he's out of touch with the solution that we need to implement in order to get America back on the right track.

With 'Love & Basketball,' I played ball my whole life and did track at UCLA. So, I'm an athlete. And it was very important for me to get it right. I started with casting: As an athlete, there's nothing worse for me than watching a sports movie and the woman that they hire can't run or can't shoot. It sets women's sports back years.

I have a track record of going out and talking to my constituents and then standing up and representing them. That's what people want.

I don't know how the other senators see me. I hope they see me as a farmer. That's really what I am. But I don't think they see me on a tractor or fixing equipment. I hope they see me grounded, as somebody who has common sense.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

I spent 20 years working for the trade union movement before becoming a Labour MP. I'm proud to have done both jobs.