Quotes About Representation

Do mainstream crowds want to watch a movie about good things happening in black neighborhoods? Do black audiences want to see a little girl doing something in a white world?

God love Neil Patrick Harris - how great is that. People grew up with him; they go, 'Oh it's him, it's that little boy and he just happens to be gay. How great for him!' The more of those kind of examples that happen, the better it's going to be.

At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more Canadian than Neil Bissoondath?

A person like Roy Nelson, a lot of people can relate to him. A lot of Americans look like him, especially where I come from in the South.

I'm not a nerd, I play one on TV.

Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.

We have to change the way people look at scientists. Today, they are the nerds, the geeks. Instead, we want some of the cool kids to say, 'Hey, this is all right.'

I worked at ILM the same time Masi Oka was there. Who would have thought that two Asian-American nerds from ILM would be on hit shows?

I'd like to see David Letterman adopt the inclusion rider on his Netflix show.

I think there's a bias against fat people on network television.

I've avoided doing network shows because I don't think they're true to real families.

Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.

MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.

Women drive network television.

The cavemen are still in charge at the networks. They're all white males, and you can't get away from that.

I challenge you to go and turn on the other cable networks to find a face like mine in primetime.

Neutrality works well in my district.

You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.

The Granite State needs a senator who knows that New Hampshire comes first - and leads like it.

My first responsibility is to be selfish for New Jersey.

DDP was the common guy, the everyman, a blue-collar guy from New Jersey. He represented something that the average person could believe in, in a way that was a little unique.

It would be nice if every state were like New Mexico and cared about the Indian vote.

My responsibility is, I'm always trying to look for new people of color or even artistic people who need a chance.

I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.