Quotes About Representation

Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament.

David Cameron, and before him Iain Duncan Smith, went out of their way to attract women into the party. Yes, we need to sell politics to more women, but quotas are not the way forward. You set a quota, what is the right quota? What is the wrong quota?

Cindy-Hyde Smith is hurting Mississippi - our progress and our reputation - and we simply must replace her.

Audiences don't need to be patronized by being shown in period things how much people smoked.

Representation matters. And it's about more than just actors on a screen. It's about snacks, it's about food, it's about culture, in every possible way.

When Western filmmakers look for an Indian they want him to play a snake charmer, a chauffeur or a peanut vendor.

You can't snap your fingers, and suddenly half of Congress is women.

Facebook, Apple, Tinder, Snapchat, and Google create our social realities - how we make friends, how we get jobs, and how mankind interacts. And the truth is, women don't truly have a seat at the table.

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

Being an Asian person on SNL,' when people are like, 'Why did it take so long?' It's sort of a question that doesn't fully understand the idea that there is no developmental experiential process for a queer Asian person to get into comedy in a way that feels inevitable.

Plenty of black people that I know have been on 'SNL,' and they haven't been utilized to the best of their abilities.

I think sometimes with politics, young people especially have become disillusioned with it, because they can't relate to it, there's a lot of snobbery and people are a lot older.

In 'Red Dead Redemption' they have a thing where if you walk through snow your footsteps stay where you've gone. I think that's just representative of humanity.

I decided I want to represent the U.S. and show what snowboarding's all about.

South Central's been portrayed so many different ways in the media for however long.

When I was in school, you never saw anyone who looked like us that was on TV. And that was really weird for me because there's so many people of South Asian descent in America - in the world.

I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.

There are so many people that don't come in contact with black men. Whether they live in a homogeneous area that's mostly white or whether they live in places where they don't have to come in contact with them. So what kind of contact do they have with African-American males? They have the media, and that's it.

In the same way that so many people read 'Harry Potter' and went to see 'Harry Potter,' just because a movie is about a kid, doesn't mean it's for kids, and just because a movie is about a girl, doesn't mean it's for girls.

As a black person on the outside, because there's so much black art and so much of black people's work circulating, so many people imitating what black people do, you would think that there'd be more black people on the business side. It didn't cross my mind that every label head, for the most part, is a white guy.

So many people who deal with sexual harassment don't have the means to file lawsuits or to get legal representation or legal advice.

It's great that we have so many people from so many diverse background in the 'Drag Race' family.

The story of 'Rudy' has almost transcended me. I'm the representation, but there are so many people out there that identify with it.

I feel like, for so many years in the industry, LGBT-identifying actors were told to play small or water themselves down or 'butch it up,' whether you're a male and you're only going out for straight characters because gay characters aren't being written, or you're a woman and you're told to 'femme it up' to play the leading lady role.