Quotes About Representation

Through the picture, I see reality. Through the word, I understand it.

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

All authority belongs to the people.

Democracy is a festival of mediocrity.

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

It takes immense genius to represent, simply and sincerely, what we see in front of us.

We're half the people, we should be half the Congress.

I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people, with their wisdom and unwisdom.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Depending on who's directing you, sometime it's heightened or more naturalistic, but generally you're trying to represent something truthful.

I have no idea how people think of literary agents. Truthfully, I don't think they think of them very often.

When I was in high school, there weren't a lot of out gay actors playing gay roles. I didn't see myself represented truthfully in the media.

When I choose a role, what I'm looking for is the ability is to tell our stories. Me being a black woman, that's just a given. It's going to be a part of any role I do, making sure I tell it truthfully and nuanced and in a way that many people can relate to.

Women should be portrayed as they are, authentically and truthfully.

I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

I'm very proud of what I do and anything I do I represent, I feel like myself and my brand and if somebody's trying to be negative, I don't really read comments online.

What's nice about 'Skinwalkers' is it's allowing an audience to see a different Indian perspective... I think, for myself, I'm trying to put the Indian perspective in a different dimension.

Do you know how many overweight women there are in America? There are a lot. And seeing people like me on the tube makes them feel good.

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.

We try to put on a show that people can be proud of whether you are in Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge, Austin, Tallahassee or Columbus, Ohio or wherever you are. We try to be symbolic of where you happen to be that Saturday. You tune into it, you see the energy, passion and love we have for the sport.