Quotes About Representation

When I'm watching TV, I'm always drawn to those female characters who are doing something that I would want to do.

Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.

Our presidency is a cut above, we all want the president to be the absolutely finest person and best person that we could elect, but even at that, presidents are not supposed to be unapproachable.

Barack Obama wants to be the power figure, he wants to be the face of the Democrat Party going forward.

In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'

Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go.

Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness and your black presence.

I think the important thing is for the president to show action. The people in America want to know that we're listening to them and their concerns.

My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.

The average woman is a size 14 but 'plus' models start at a size six. The industry wants you to feel bad about yourself, and they succeed. I find it to be disgusting.

I'm running for president because everyday Americans and their families need a champion, and I want to be that champion. I want to make the words middle class mean something again.

Democrats, Republicans, independents, people across America. If you don't vote for me, I still want to be your president.

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim, then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means we are currently about 2,000 short.

The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

There's no Asian [vocalist] that's huge out there. So I want to do that. I want to break that mold.

I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.

There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a woman."

I think, as a white person, I do not want to speak for a black person.

Paraguay has had a U.S. supermarket boss as its ambassador for a while. He did the job well. He was there because he wanted to be there. Rather than the British diplomat who didn't want to be there.

I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel, a state that claims to represent all Jewish people and make me into a potential citizen.

People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

People want the government to go back to the people.