Quotes About Representation

The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.

The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men.

People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.

I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.

I'm on the radio because I love hip-hop. I represent that community, but there are so many other aspects to who I am as a person.

I love female heroes too and would love to bring many more to the big screen in the future.

I do love that witches havent really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

I'm normal size... I wish we could all be known as models rather than plus size.

I love working on 'Glee,' and I hope that there are more and more parts for me and other actors with Down syndrome in television and in movies so I can keep working for a long, long time.

I'm ready to be an action figure. I'd love that very much. And all the redheaded kids will get to go out and feel loved and be able to buy a redheaded action figure.

Wholeness, so far as statesmen go, may have something to do with speaking in one's own words. De Gaulle did not call in "writers"; the very idea is grotesque. The leader who allows others to speak for him is abdicating. Who is speaking via Nixon? Who wrote this phrase or that? One is never quite sure.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

I believe that there lives a burning desire in the most sequestered private heart of every American, a desire to belong to a great country. I believe that every citizen wants to stand on the world stage and represent a noble country where the mighty do not always crush the weak and the dream of a democracy is not the sole possession of the strong.

The images had been provided by movies, books and Pathe News, and none included a six-foot tall Black woman hovering either in the back or in the foreground.

We must insist that the men and women who expect to lead us recognize the true desires of those who are being led.

Art." Dauntra nodded. "Sure. I can't believe a guy gets paid to show off his goods, and people call it art.

You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol of the ladies room door.

When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men ; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

We see in movies, people are represented as being in love who never talk with one another, who fall into bed without ever discussing their bodies, their sexual needs, their likes and dislikes. [...] the message is [...] that ignorance gives love its erotic and transgressive edge. These messages are often brought to us by profiteering producers who have no clue about the art of loving. [...] They do not know how to genuinely portray loving interaction.

They(students) accept the shift in the locus of representation but resist shifting ways they think about ideas. That is threatening. That's why the critique of multiculturalism seeks to shut the classroom down again— to halt this revolution in how we know what we know. It's as though many people know that the focus on difference has the potential to revolutionize the classroom and they do not want the revolution to take place.

Until black people, and our allies in love and struggle, become militant about how we are represented on television, in movies, and in books, we will not see imaginative work that offers images of black characters who love. If love is not present in our imaginations, it will not be there in our lives.

we must consistently challenge dehumanizing public representations of poverty and the poor. Restoring to our nation the understanding that people can be materially poor yet have abundant lives rich in engagement with nature, with local culture, with spiritual values is essential to any progressive struggle to halt mountaintop removal

Finding themselves in competition with younger women (many of whom are not and will never be feminist) for male attention they often emulate sexist representations of female beauty.

Since individuals committed to advancing patriarchy are producing most of the images we see, they have an investment in providing us with representations that reflect their values and the social institutions they want to uphold. [...] Yet they need a consumer audience to whom they can sell their product. Therein lies our power to demand change.