Quotes About Representation

When I'm looking for hot button answers to tough questions, I don't look to congressman or my mayor. I say, 'What would Miss U.S.A. have to say about this?'

We have seen many instances where Malayali actors missed out on the awards when some of the jury members were from the state.

Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.

Executives in Hollywood are missing a lot because they don't want to watch other cultures.

Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.

Our mission is to serve women of color and serve them deeply.

I don't want it to be a mission, but of course I always love to see more diversity in comics. I always love to see more women.

I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.

It is a great honor to serve Mississippi as its first female United States Senator.

What we need is a good salesman for Mississippi, someone who can effectively represent our interests.

I will be a strong voice for Mississippi, and not an echo.

I'm running for Congress to represent Missouri's 1st because we need leadership that is truly invested in helping us become stronger and safer. I'm running because I have a commitment to every member of my community.

The people of Missouri's First District elected a Ferguson-made activist to the House and I have brought the same energy from the frontlines of Ferguson to the halls of Congress.

Sometimes I feel like I represent for the misunderstood.

I think there's this idea that if we put up a play with all African-Americans or all Latinas, or even if we mix it up, then it won't really sell to a mainstream audience. At the end of the day, what's going to drive the story being told is what's going to drive people to the seats.

Britain is not just One Direction, Little Mix, and James Bay. There's Skepta killing it, there's Krept and Konan killing it.

Why is the world that I see around me mixed, and why is the world I see in movies filled with all white people? Why does it have to be like that?

Often, when you go to the movies or the theatre, you think, Jesus Christ, everybody is white. But my daughter goes to an amazing dance school called Ballet Black, and they have every colour: dark, white, mixed. It looks like the future to me.

I'd like to see more beauty campaigns for girls who are mixed Latina and black.

It was quite strange that people were saying I wasn't Asian enough. It's like, 'Oh, you're not Asian enough to play an Asian role.' So what does that mean for people who come from mixed heritage? I grew up in Asia; I'm Malaysian.

Because when you have all white men in the writers' room trying to tell the perspective of cultural appropriation or what it's like to be black or Asian in America and not necessarily knowing what it's like, that's when everything gets mixed up.

I have quite a different background from a lot of people in the Labour party - I'm of mixed heritage.

Being mixed race in Britain in the '80s and '90s, there just weren't loads of people who looked like me.

I made my England debut when I was 17, against India. I was the first Asian to play for the England women's team, and I did have mixed feelings playing against the country my parents are from but I was born and bred in England and I've always known I wanted to play for my country.