Quotes About Representation

The barriers to careers in STEM that people of color and traditionally underrepresented groups face need to be broken down.

It is an honor to represent the people of India every time I step into the ring.

Every single time I step on stage or on screen, I am contributing to a culture in which there's a dearth of people representing folks that look like me, or that have our context.

From the start I was a kid who read 'Goosebumps', and that led me to Stephen King, and then I saw 'Aliens,' and 'Night of the Living Dead,' the original. And with 'Night of the Living Dead' I was like, 'Oh my god, there's a black person who's the main character. Does anybody see that?'

We started to have more women and little girls in our audience, where it started to be 40 percent female that sat in our live audience. So I think, when that was happening and the women were stepping up and saying, 'Hey we can do what the men do,' and then you saw it on a reality show, it was just inevitable for us to have this women's evolution.

Women are stepping up, they are performing, they are showing that we are athletes as well and we deserve the attention we are getting.

America has taken small baby steps of progress towards having more inclusion and diversity in Hollywood. It's optimistic.

As governor, I'll focus on these concrete steps to make it easier to vote and include every community in our democratic process.

The NBA is a predominately black league. And me kind of being the anomaly in that sense, I've always tried to commit myself to being an ally and taking those necessary steps.

As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.

I was very sure I did not want to be the stereotype of what Indian people are seen as, which is Bollywood and henna. That's all great! It's what we are, and I love it. I love saris; I love music. I love henna; I love dancing, but that's not all we are.

I understand the whole constant foreigner stereotype, but for me it's important to portray immigrant characters like Jian-Yang and Danny Meng with humanity.

I knew I had to be the gay stereotype that was on the front of the papers every day. And I did my job well. I played the game.

About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are.

I don't want to ever tell a stereotype joke for the sake of it. I'm going to tell the story that I feel is true.

It's definitely my responsibility not to stereotype any character, but especially a gay character because of the misperceptions people still have about gays.

For us as Asian-Americans, I think the bane of our existence is one stereotype - 'Sixteen Candles,' the Long Duk Dong character.

When you're a large black man in Hollywood, the obvious stereotype is one of force and menace.

I try to take roles that don't fall within the parameters of any Asian stereotype.

The goal of Asians in the arts is plurality of roles. I've always been hindered by me over-thinking what is a stereotype and what isn't.

I've been fortunate that a lot of roles I've done have been professionals and not your TV stereotype of Latinos.

This industry is quick to stereotype. People had started talking about how I was primarily being part of women-centric movies. I didn't want to be labelled as part of a mahila morcha.

I feel it's so rare that young females are portrayed as being anything more than a stereotype.

I don't want to perpetuate a stereotype. I don't want to take Asian representation backwards two steps. I don't want to be part of the problem.