Quotes About Representation

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

I remember 'Resurrection Boulevard.' It was on for such a brief moment, but they were trying to do a good, Latino, Mexican-American family with a patriarch.

Why don't I earn very much? I don't know; you'd have to ask my agent. Maybe I'm just not very bright!

Some people thought I was bringing the sport down. I don't think so. I was the best and only jumper my country had.

I want to continue to broaden expectations of what an Asian can be.

The world we live in is like a Benetton ad. It's changed, and we have to appeal to a broader audience. You want younger kids of every race to be able to see themselves in the movie.

I'd like to think of myself as an ambassador for Broadway.

So many fantastic male characters are brooding, angry, and not nice; that doesn't happen as much with women.

I want to be an ambassador of Brooklyn.

It's time for a brother to be Bond.

When I was growing up, I only saw really brown people on 'The Cosby Show,' and they were rich, and their parents were doctors. It wasn't like my home.

When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.

Growing up, I'd watch 'The Cosby Show' and 'The Fresh Prince of Bel Air;' I'd look at the little brown girls and be inspired by them.

I'm a Bobbi Brown girl at heart, and I'm proud to be its ambassador in Asia!

I love that brown people are being more and more represented on screen.

The broad brush of stereotyping is what least appeals to people of color.

It's like I'm held up as some kind of beacon of England - or some bloody British bulldog.

'America's Next Top Model' is not a bunch of Barbies - it's a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful.

It's disconcerting that there's been this weird business model focused on teenaged boys, and it comes with a completely unexamined social cost. I hope there's an awareness happening to create an audience habituated to seeing women as they really are, rather than just a masticated shadow.

I wanted to do the kind of show that I would want to watch as a busy wife, mother, and midde-aged woman.

Growing up, I never saw images of trans people succeeding.

I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.

I just hope that my success is in some way influencing other outlets to really be much more purposeful in promoting, advancing and recruiting people of color.

America is - and will always be - a success story. We have African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, and members of other ethnic groups elected to positions inside our governments.