Quotes About Representation

I do think television has really fantasized it to the point where now everyone wants a gay best friend.

I am working for Alaska's best interests.

Everybody, of course, wants to represent the Cavs in the best way. Of course, myself too.

You hold everybody that's Polynesian or Samoan on your shoulders. You want to do your best to represent that in the best way that you can.

I think any time you get the chance to represent the title and to earn the title, you learn how to represent it in the best way. You learn how to wear it with honor, fight for it with honor and really become the face of WWE for the Divas.

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature.

I do think if all politicians were women, the world would be a better place.

I wanted to show that Asian players could make it in Europe. But it was far more important for me just to become a better player. That is why I came to Europe from Asia.

Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.

I'd never been around or seen a black showrunner, and in some ways you wish that it wasn't a big deal.

For me, I feel like horror space has always been a space of the other, even when it's not people of color or black people. That has always drawn me to it, and I've been a big fan.

I am not afraid to play Latin roles - that was a big part of my life.

It's not enough for Hollywood to make a bunch of gay movies. That's obviously a big part of the equation, but then gay people have to show up for those movies.

One of the big problems in Dail Eireann is the lack of women.

I believe that the sport of football has set itself up to be in a position where it shows itself in the bigger picture to not really care about women - they don't really care about people of color, but we won't get into that for NFL either - but as a woman I feel like a person who has been marginalized.

I don't know if I would play a woman in space in a bikini.

I don't feel an image can really bind an actor.

I'm really happy to bring bisexuality to TV because you don't see that often on television, especially with women.

I don't like to do press. But I know sometimes I need to do it because every time I do there's young people - black and white, but I think about young African-Americans because that's the experience I grew up with - who hear it.

We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white.

I do think with wrestling as a whole, one of the tough things, especially for women, more for the black community is that a lot of the times it's hard to get attention or you're working in places where it's not being streamed.

Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.

I wanted to make a movie about a black family in Middle America. I wanted to make a film where everyone can look at them and say, 'This is my family.'