Quotes About Representation

I was in 'UFC Undisputed 2,' but I was only a bonus character, so not everyone got to play as me.

If people can understand me and accept me as a woman, I'm going to get booked for more jobs.

If they're booking a PWR BTTM show, they know what they're in for.

I've always wanted to do stuff to help encourage more women to play, whether it's booking women on my shows at home, even when I was just playing DIY shows, or booking benefit shows and having all women play.

It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if I want to read something about Asian-American characters.

Before stand-up, I didn't even have an agent. Once I started doing stand-up - boom. I got an agent. In fact, I got three agents. I got a lawyer. Now I get taken seriously.

If you're going to put me in the booth, make sure it's because I'm good enough to be there.

Anytime I'm like, 'Ho-hum,' trying to go about my business like anyone else, I'll have a father or someone come up to me and say, 'You know, my daughter never realized she could be in the booth for sports, and now that's what she wants to do.'

It's very difficult for me to represent a white player. It just is. Look around. There's very few. I represent a player from Bosnia. But, again, he's international. He looks at it different.

There was a reason they called me 'the female boss' in N-Dubz - I did all the talking.

It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.

I have the voice of a social activist and I have the voice of the Pakistanis as well. So I can't be bothered about what people think.

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

I think most people write from what they see in their own world, which is maybe why we so often see an African-American woman as the best friend, or the one you bring in when you need some sass. It's like we're put in a box.

Women drive box office.

Women of color have always been kind of boxed in by the idea that the more you talk about the misogyny of your own community, the more you make that community look bad.

Black women in music are always expected to sing R&B or soul: we are always boxed in.

It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.

I wouldn't use a song I didn't think was my brand or image.

I always assumed skincare brands would only want to work with people who have perfect skin but that wasn't the case which was a huge confidence boost for me.

Brazil has no parties, only acronyms.

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

I try to bring awareness, not just to CP but to all disabilities in the sense that it's knowledge. My disability gave me so much knowledge that I was able to take into 'Breaking Bad' and to grow and to learn.

Cinema is actually very backward. When we see gay characters or people of color, they're always there for that reason. I'm personally kind of sick of that. I love to see characters who just live and breathe and are comfortable in that space.