Quotes About Representation

I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Though I have seldom done anything to my own satisfaction, I am better satisfied with the translation of the New Testament than I ever expected to be. The language is, I believe, simple, plain, intelligible; and I have endeavored, I hope successfully, to make every sentence a faithful representation of the original.

People are usually so disappointed with book-to-movie translations.

With the dramatic increase in ease of transportation and the incredible decrease in the amount of time required to travel between far-flung areas of the United States, representatives began spending more and more time in Washington and less and less time in their home districts.

Think of it like this. Sara is a minority within a minority within a minority, OK?

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

As the print of the seal on the wax is the express image of the seal itself, so Christ is the express image - the perfect representation of God.

Most electronic machines, including all computers, speak a common language: binary math, in which all numbers, no matter how large, are represented as a combination of ones and zeroes. There are no other digits, and, surprisingly enough, no others are needed.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

One time, a Protestant minister said, "We made Jesus blonde haired and blue eyed and very cute. We made Jesus somehow a much more feminine figure." And there's probably truth to that.

When photography was invented, it was thought to be an equivalent to truth. It was truth with a capital T.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

There are people out there who have been trying to pursue acting, but they've said stuff like, Oh, we're not looking for anybody with your race. But now, we're all here to show the truth.

The truth is black celebrities are not as sought after in the press as white celebrities, and that is comforting.

So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through the arts.

You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate to play that card, but it's the truth. There's not a lot of roles.

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.