Quotes About Representation

The DNC says they want minorities to run for office but when they actually do, we don't get the support that we need and deserve.

The minority must bow to the majority.

Where do I fit in? That's something I think about as an actor, especially as an actor from a minority community.

I never consider myself a minority. I see people who look like me in Barbados, in Trinidad, in Haiti, in London, and in Brooklyn. So I don't know what the heck anyone means when they call me a 'minority.' There's something about that word to me. It just minimalizes people.

I feel there has to be a concerted effort that we encourage, in whichever way, more black and minority ethnic coaches to take their badges at the higher levels.

I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

I feel like a lot of the portrayals of, in particular, younger minority ethnic characters on television, a lot of their dialogue, a lot of their characteristics, a lot of their personality in a writer's eyes, is kind of propelled through their ethnicity.

We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.

I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.

When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority.

The natural result of people preferring one of their own race is that a minority race president will find it hard to get elected, and so it's something we should do something about and which we can do something about.

What I crave, and what I want to see on television, is when you see a minority character, not to have it being about them being black or Asian or Latino. If you watch 'Friends,' for example, it's not about a group of people being white. It's about a group of people being friends, you know? You should just let the characters exist.

A lot of times when I play a show, I'm the only girl on the bill. We're a minority, for sure.

Minority ethnic issues need to be mainstream issues.

I've spent my entire adult life encouraging minority communities to get involved in mainstream society, civic society.

I have always included minority characters in my stories, often as heroes.

If you're a minority party that doesn't control any branch of government, you're more likely to be ignored.

Women are a minority the same way gay people are.

I felt like I wasn't considered for minority or Caucasian male lead roles. There aren't really a lot of roles written for me, and I mean me and who I am in real life.

I cannot be any clearer, minority governments don't work.

The numbers speak for themselves as far as the hiring, firing and the lack of opportunities for minority and Black head coaches and executives in the National Football League, and we need the change.

People shouldn't feel that advice has to come from people who look like them. Because if that happens, then the converse is true: where when an ethnic minority is speaking people might feel well this person is only speaking for their sub-group.

It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.