Quotes About Representation

I'm saying that when a publicly traded company says something doesn't make a difference in terms of their investments, I trust that they are representing those facts accurately.

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

We don't use the trademark to market anything. It's our identity.

Casting me as King Arthur was quite bold of 'Spamalot's producers, although it has been historically proved Arthur was Asian, and that Sunday trading started with Asians in 11th-century Britain.

I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

Comedies in Hollywood is usually the path of least resistance when it comes to being black in Hollywood and putting movies together. They would rather make us laugh than cry, in some respect.

You don't really see Asian men together very often. It's very rare in life.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

I think it's sad, and weird, and strange that [race in casting] is still a thing. It's 2013. Somebody else needs to get their act together.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals.

I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.

It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things.

Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'

As a leader, you build trust when you give yourself 100%, so that people understand with your every action, you stand for them.

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.

All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

Women must leave a record for their men; otherwise how will they know us?

He had lost touch with citizens of his state, a common illness that afflicts many an elected official.

Like most legislators throughout U.S. history, the senators of Desk 88 have been disproportionately white and male.