Quotes About Representation

I am not against the state government. I am pro-people... Whenever the government goes wrong, I will speak up for the people of the state.

When In The Style came to me asking if I wanted to do a collection, I said very clearly what kind of collection I wanted it to be, and the lovely thing was that they were looking to do the same kind of thing. I stated that I didn't want any retouching, and I want the women modelling the clothes to represent all women.

It's not what my job is about. I'm not out to make a political statement. I want to stand for something, but more by example.

'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.

It's still a political statement to stand on stage as a person of color and be excellent. We still need those images to combat the narrative we're often fed - as someone innately inferior or inexorably linked with lack.

Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.

I'm a walking political statement.

Every time we get in drag and bat an eyelash, it is a political statement.

The founding of Graeae by disabled actors was a huge political statement that you forgot at your peril.

Some have said I focus on marginalized communities, but it's not like that was my mission statement. I've just told stories that interest me, and that I'm not seeing enough of, on groups of people and subcultures that are often not seen.

My existence in Hollywood is a political statement, because there are so few women who are plus-sized or above a size 6.

We as footballers, like with Sancho, have a lot of power to reach other people, to be role models and to say something. What we say to people outside gives us a big chance to make a statement.

People always make these generalized statements about Hollywood, and there's all kinds of people in Hollywood.

The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself.

As a female athlete, I think it's really important to stand up on a podium and represent females and what we're capable of, and I always try to make political statements with what I do rather than with headlines.

This country deserves a statesman who can represent the people with proper decorum, respect, and knowledge of what's happening in the world, and I don't believe that Donald Trump represents any of that.

I think I have the same hair as him. If a movie comes about, I have to be Static Shock.

I'm so proud to represent my hometown on the International Space Station where we conduct scientific research that can benefit all of humankind.

I think that my career and perhaps me being on the International Space Station can really show women and girls and everybody that hey, we're not just sitting at the table, we're leading the table.

I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.

I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.

You can shape statistics to make them look however you want them to.