Quotes About Representation

As a woman standing up here, we have to fight for the rights of women.

Social media forced us to look at the bigger picture. More people are standing up saying, 'Hey, wait, this is beautiful, too,' and the fashion industry is listening.

I am not a spokesperson for the trans community, I am not. The media kind of projects me as being the spokesperson, but from my standpoint, I am not. I am a spokesperson for my story, and that's all I can tell.

I think from an artist standpoint, you have to put out music that you feel like represents you and things you feel like your crowd wants to hear. And if that drives them to go and download the album or the single, that's what we want.

I think overall, from a deputy, from an undersecretary standpoint, the goal of a good leader is to get diversity across there. Geographical diversity is important. Industry diversity is important: you can't have all corn growers... Not only that, you've got gender diversity, you've got racial diversity.

I'm most proud of the fact I carried myself on and off the field consistently for what the NFL stands for.

The Republican establishment no longer stands for us.

Based on what our country stands for. We can't fail to stand for democracy.

It is so important that our federation stands by our athletes.

'Greenleaf' is nothing like 'Empire.' I think 'Empire' stands alone in what they are doing. It's a wonderful show. The only thing that is similar though is that they are black families - the shows in it of themselves have very different dynamics.

I love Kimberly Elise. I think shes an awesome talent. Ive always been drawn to her as a person and what she stands for. And shes a fellow naturalista like myself.

Early on, people told me I was making Chinese people look bad. I've been living with this accent. I had already been doing standup for a while. I knew my voice already. I myself never wanted to make my accent the butt of the joke. I never want it to be, 'I'm laughing at your accent.'

Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.

I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music . . . healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.

What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.