Quotes About Representation

There is no doubt a president has to govern for everyone.

There is no doubt that diversity is a problem in show business and that this fight has been going on for a long time.

When you watch TV, I didn't know black people were that happy. I had no idea they were that happy. I'm trying to find them.

The main thing that I learned in doing 'Moonlight' is that we get to shine light on a way of living, or a person, or whatever it may be that otherwise wouldn't have light or that otherwise wouldn't have any exposure, so people have no idea.

As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race.

Art and photography allowed for the communication of new ideas, often in ways that words did not.

OUT of that moment Jesus was nailed to his cross flowed our attempts to represent it, to create a narrative that could contain it. Yet the body, hanging there, is still, simply, terrible. Caravaggio's genius was to paint Jesus with dirty feet, to bring him back down to earth.

Mi genio, si se puede decir así, consiste en combinar un montón de cualidades medias en una representación compacta.

When you fight to be taken seriously, you don't smile in photos.

To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.

The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the individual life in a way that expands our understanding of some previously unseen or unarticulated aspect of existence.

The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.

In order to have a happy ending, in order to be triumphant, in order to be heroic, you have to tell your own story. The women's movement knows that; black people know that; brown people know that; yellow people know that. You have to be able to tell your own story in order to show that you are worthy--that you belong.

I always thought that would be really neat if black people ever got control of the United States we would, of course, tear down some of the statues because we just don't like them...like all of Richmond would probably not have a statue standing.

Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place

By now, less than 7 percent of private sector workers have unions, and it's not because workers don't want unions—polls show that, overwhelmingly, they want to unionize—but they can't.

The planned elections seem "more designed for the consumption of US Congress and world opinion than for the Guatemalan people."69

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. --Nora Ephron

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.

By now, everyone I know is one of seven strangers, inevitably hoping to represent a predefined demographic and always failing horribly. The Read World is the real world is The Real World is the read world. It's the same true story, even when it isn't.

His separation from the rest of society is beyond vast. But we are not working within the parameters of reality; we are working within the parameters of televised sport. And that's a critical difference. It essentially makes Ralph Sampson a tall, emotive, representational nonhuman slave. And within these parameters, four thousand rebounds don't mean shit.

The uncomfortable, omnipresent reality within any conversation about representation is that the most underrepresented subcultures are the ones that don't even enter into the conversation.

You've never seen a crucifix with a Jesus who wasn't almost naked. You've never seen a fat Jesus. Or a Jesus with body hair. Every crucifix you've ever seen, the Jesus could be shirtless and modeling designer jeans or men's cologne.

Si tal vez no necesitáramos de un personaje mítico y salvaje para representar nuestras vidas en proceso de desaparición.