Quotes About Representation

no correspondence is intended between any institutions or characters in this book and any real institutions or people living, dead, or wandering the night in ghostly torment.

They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.

Most often the people in Exodus have contact with God by representative only; it is Moses who has the personal connection to and interaction with God, not the Israelite people, but he does so on their behalf, not his own. Exodus also shows how the high priest will represent the people in his actions of worship ritual so they can be assured of access to the (limited) presence of God and the benefits of that close proximity to eternal and universal sovereignty.52

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of 100 people, with all existing human ratios staying the same, it would look like this: There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Americas and 8 Africans. 80 would live in substandard housing. 70 would be unable to read. 50 would suffer from malnutrition. 50 per cent of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people. And all 6 would be citizens of the United States.

I organize faith leaders and people of faith to dismantle White supremacy and structural racism through the power of representing voices and practices.

My point is, the Senate is filled not just with lawyers, but with old white men.

Former Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank once said, "I only voted once for someone who believes in 100 percent of what I believe. And that's when I voted for myself—the first time.

Lacan savait que le théâtre est un réservoir capital quand il s'agit de comprendre le mécanisme qui transforme le réel en représentation et le désir en images.

The menu is not the meal.

make a good showing among all the monied bigwigs in the Mazarile chamber of commerce, he'd brought both of us along for the evening. We were meant to be on our best behaviour. Prim and proper educated young ladies.

I think athletes are, in general, tired of so much of their persona being controlled by the media.

Ramy' is based on a lot of personal things, and it's interesting to see how many people feel like it's their story. And how many people view it as this democratic thing that should represent them.

I hope that when people see Asian women, they realize we are all different. A lot of time with Caucasian people, they just group us together as Asian. But even with different cities in China, people have different personalities... We look Asian, but we still look different. We don't look the same.

Democracy should not work on the basis of personalities.

We've been able to create those personalities that are not anonymous that can somehow support exposure but in a fictional way.

I feel like in NASCAR, there's not many personalities that take up social media. Most of the time, it's just the media person doing it for them, and you don't get that connection with the fans when you do that.

I don't personally feel a responsibility to be a role model, but as the actor, I do.

Personally, it was always very difficult to find complexion products that match my shade.

Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual.

I'm interested in Native American and African American stories, and LGBTQ stories and stories of persons of mixed heritage. These are the stories I want to see onscreen and on the pages.

I purposely didn't change the pronouns in 'Dancing On My Own' so that it was from a gay man's perspective.