Quotes About Representation

For a lot of comics who aren't as silly or physical but more intellectual, we get looked at as 'alt comics.' No, I'm still a black comic, and there are black people who want to hear my type of black comedy, but that space hasn't been built out for us.

Superdelegates, first off, I think, are silly.

I'm glad to be partnered with Orgullosa because I feel that now that I'm able to win a gold medal at the Olympics, win a silver medal, I feel little girls will be able to look up to me, and Hispanics will kind of rise a little more.

The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.

There's a lot of people in Hollywood who don't look like me or don't have similar features like me.

In general, the auditions I go up for are very sparse, I guess because of my ethnicity. And the characters are very similar: shy, innocent and naive; the connotations that come from the way that I look.

I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.

When I was younger and really interested in acting, I would look at all the women on TV, and even the ones who were supposed to be 'geeks' or 'less attractive,' they all looked similar because they were extremely attractive and their bodies were all a certain way.

Acting is very similar to modeling.

Mississippi is not California, Mississippi is not Massachusetts, and Kamala knows that. If I'm lucky enough and blessed to be a member of the U.S. Senate, we may not always vote similarly. She knows that, and I know that as well.

I hope movies like 'Love, Simon' encourage people to be their authentic selves.

It's movies like 'Love, Simon' that are so pivotal because it's this sweet rom-com that you would watch about a straight couple, but it's two guys. It feels natural and real and just charming. I would love to see more movies like that.

We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled people in our daily lives.

There's racist casting, and there is normal casting. Normal casting, to me, is a process that strives for representation and, in many cases, strives to simply portray the world as it actually is instead of as falsely non-inclusive. And sadly, sometimes that involves removing the whitewash that exists on history.

Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, What does this represent? What does it stand for? They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again.

There is a collective blame shared by those of us who have created the modern Republican Party that has so egregiously failed the principles it claimed to represent.

The reason African Americans overwhelmingly reject Republicans isn't based on word choices or phrasing. It's based on policy. It isn't how Republicans are talking to black voters that results in 90 percent or more of those voters refusing to vote for Republicans. It's what the Republicans are doing, once elected.

The Republican Congress now represents a party with very few significant defining principles other than the promotion of the president's impulses at that moment. —Republican former senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire

I personally keep slave documents listing the value of slaves framed on my wall in California, and in my office in Chicago.

to men in Jewish and Christian Scriptures, women rarely have speaking parts, and they are not mentioned nearly as often. If they are referenced, they're often unnamed.

Her father had thought it too much to throw in the faces of clients who needed a gentle introduction to the prospect of female representation.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.