Quotes About Representation

No person of color has ever held a top executive post in his organization and even his suited security army inside the tower is virtually all white. Race

be ventriloquism

But not every image is symbolic; not every woman is a goddess.

Women, who constitute a huge and growing market for pornography, should be taken seriously as consumers.

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

representativeness can block the application of an obvious logical rule is also of some interest.

more intelligent individuals are more likely than others to have rich representations of most things.

An odd feature of what happened is that your System 1 treated the mere conjunction of two words as representations of reality. Your body acted in an attenuated replica of reaction to the real thing, and the emotional response and physical recoil were part of the interpretation of the event. As cognitive scientists have emphasised in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist's hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed.

Art is one of the great resources of my life," Abby had written the year before. "I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subject it represents.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

majoritarianism.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people. January 1830

Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.

no one knew how to take pictures of anyone who wasn't white. So when I went to school, I studied why

Christianity involves the claim that Jesus was anointed by God to represent both God and humanity in the restoration of a broken relationship existing between the Creator and his creation.

The majority of governmental workers wear his or her personality not on their sleeves but on ID badges.

Visual information trumps the dialogue every time.

Let's face it, our representative democracy has broken down. Our government primarily represents the big money boys and stacks the deck against reform movements. Playing only by the system's rules limits you.

Jews, therefore, as far as progressives are concerned, don't represent anything outside of themselves. No victory is claimed by championing their experience, and this leads to a subtle—and unconscious—exclusion.

Just as a particular racism can only really be defined by the victims of that racism, the deep truth of identity is only available to those who live that identity. Casting a non-minority actor to mimic that identity feels, to the progressive eye, like impersonation, and impersonation carries with it an element of mockery: or at least, it is reductive, lessening the complexity of that experience by channeling it through an actor who hasn't lived it.*

The natural way to represent the foreignness of foreign utterances is to leave them in the original, in whole or in part.