Quotes About Representation

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

White men make up 30% of America but they hold 70% of the board seats.

The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.

Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.

[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!

I'm not just a black man, I'm a brotha. I love my people. When I'm on the air I am fully aware that I am not just representing myself but representing us.

I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.

It's important to have women in leadership positions, because our experiences are different from those of the men we serve with and that helps us identify problems we can fix.

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.

I make films about Black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a Black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.

There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

My great crime wasn't refusing to represent an innocent man; my great crime was imagining that there was some path to racial justice that did not include those we view as 'guilty'.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.

I look at the Christian Bale movies, the Batman films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights.

The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.

When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

Without women's full inclusion at the decision making table, we cannot have any healthy decision making that is good for men and women alike.

Computers rely on the one and the zero to represent all things. This distinction between something and nothing—this pivotal separation between being and nonbeing—is quite fundamental and underlies many Creation myths.

I get it," Richard said. "But is that all we are? Just digital Crips and Bloods?