Quotes About Representation

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.

A picture may tell a thousand words but it doesn't tell a story

The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.

Metonimijska slika banalnog nacionalizma nije zastava kojom se svesno maše u trenucima raspaljenih strasti; to je zastava koja visi nezapaženo na javnoj zgradi.

It was during my explanation to my young daughter that I finally realized why I had been drawn to this particular practice of law. Yes, some of my clients were just gaming the system. They were charlatans no better than the banks they were taking on. But some of mu clients were downtrodden and disadvantaged. They were true underdogs in society and I wanted to stand for them and keep them in their homes for as long as I possibly could.

People too poor to afford their own legal defense and reliant on the government that was prosecuting them to also defend them.

Amply described blowjobs and anal scenes may stigmatise gay writers.

The trick was not simply to write the code that turned information into pictures but to find the best pictures to draw—shapes and colors that led the mind to meaning.

Going around the table, people took turns responding to a request to "talk about your experience of being a minority at RBC." When Brad's turn came he said, "To be honest, the only time I've ever felt like a minority is this exact moment. If you really want to encourage diversity you shouldn't make people feel like a minority." Then he left.

RBC invited Brad along with a bunch of other nonwhite people to a meeting to discuss the issue. Going around the table, people took turns responding to a request to "talk about your experience of being a minority at RBC." When Brad's turn came he said, "To be honest, the only time I've ever felt like a minority is this exact moment. If you really want to encourage diversity you shouldn't make people feel like a minority.

people Trump had sent into the Department of Agriculture were white men in their twenties.

The smaller the sample size, the more likely that it is unrepresentative of the wider population...people can be taught the correct rule, perhaps even with little difficulty. The point remains that people do not follow the correct rule, when left to their own devices.

Page 37: Article 1, Section 2, of the Constitution counted each slave (usually treated in the law as chattel property) as three fifths of a person in determining Southern representation in the House of Representatives (this compromise, it should be noted, served Northern interests; had each slave been counted as a complete person for purposes of congressional representation, the South would have had even more representatives in Congress).

I suppose it was a mistake to sketch in a background for the movie, in which I described a likely mix of people in a late-Roman settlement, amongst them people from Africa and the Near East. 'You mean they had black people back then!' was actually what my boss exclaimed when he read that. 'Could Lancelot's sidekick be black?

Gods are but metaphors. said Orland Frank. As metaphors they might be very acceptable - but they should never be allowed to become beings in their own right.

There are no brunettes...among Florentine Madonnas.

The feeling of being marginalized, a stranger in one's own land, is part of what makes many ethnics so responsive to any kind of media representation, sometimes even a derogatory one. A starving person will eat foul food.

Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is often how they are taught in school.

My sincere effort always will be to lift the reputation of the Indian team and my country whenever I play for India.

I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.

I want mainstream artists to accept Latino artists as equals without us having to sing in English.

In 'Crazy Rich Asians,' Singapore will be seen as it should be seen, without CGI, without the altering of the images to be more Chinese - a representation of Singapore as we know it and love it.

Our long-term dream is for Singapore to have a healthy democracy where there are two or three parties who could form a competent and honest Government.

When you're a ranchera singer, you represent your country. It's a God-given gift.