Quotes About Representation

I'm the kind of person that when I saw a lack of African Americans in the apparel business, that was something I set out to do, and I lead by example.

I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.

Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.

My last name is Stone, though." "How foolish do you think I am?" he echoed the exact words she'd said to him about his name only hours ago. "Lisa Rock? That will not do. I can hardly present you to my men, should I decide to, as Lisa Stone. I may as well tell them you are Lisa Mud or Lisa Straw. Why would your people take the name of a stone?

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

There aren't as many girl superheroes, but there are cool ones. Banshee, for instance.

We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign. We'll look anywhere for a mythology that embraces people like ourselves.

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Under patriarchy the female did not herself develop the symbols by which she is described. As

For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.

In democracies,5 for example, females have often held no office or do so (as now) in such minuscule numbers as to be below even token representation. Aristocracy,

believe me it is not. Better still, let me prove it. From prehistoric cave paintings to the map of the London Underground, images, diagrams and charts have long been at the heart of human storytelling. The reason why is simple: our brains are wired for visuals. 'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it speaks,' wrote the media theorist John Berger in the opening lines of his 1972 classic, Ways of Seeing.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.

The alternative to appropriation is a world where white European people make art about white European people, with only white European references in it. Swap African or Asian or Latin or whatever culture you want for European. A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own.

With his sweet, roundish face, light-colored eyes, and mix of white and Asian features, Sam looked almost exactly like an anime character. Astro Boy, or one of the wisecracking little brothers of manga.

Until Harvard, he had not realized that in America—and not just in its college theaters—there were only so many roles an Asian could play.

A little girl hitting a violent predator with a log is hand-to-hand combat and that's honest. A man, who is represented by a hand, shooting a series of unknown henchmen is dishonest.

The historian amputates reality.

The white man" represented "civilization" as a single human being defined equally by his whiteness and by his maleness.

Fue una obra extraña en la que algunos actores personificaban diversos símbolos, una de esas representaciones sesudas en las que te aburres como una ostra pero no te atreves a decirlo porque no quieres que un grupo de seudointelectuales te trate como una estúpida. Solo te diré que había muchas frases del estilo 'La Madre Tierra está sobre nosotros'.

Unlike in autocracy, people are more responsible than the leaders in democratic system of governance as leaders reflect their voters' thoughts and actions.