Quotes About Representation

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.

I hope that as my career continues I get to create and work on more LGBT projects and bring LGBT storytelling into more mainstream media!

We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.

It doesn't matter what party you come from. The key thing is that you work on behalf of the people rather than on behalf of the party.

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.

I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.

We're going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?

I feel like I'm here to bust those misconceptions and stereotypes of Muslim women.

Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not believe in the picture or model established in the movies.

Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

There would always be scripts that came along that I turned down, like Gang Member #5 - roles that were just stereotypes.

You definitely get different stereotypes and I've worked so hard, especially in the beginning, proving not that I was just more than a video girl but that you can do more than people expect you can and carry yourself a certain way and have some type of integrity or credibility.

What I will not do is continue to perpetuate stereotypes. I'm the daughter of a maid; why do I have to also play a maid? My mom was a maid so I didn't have to be a maid.

As an actor, you break stereotypes all the time.

Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.

I don't feel that any kind of narrow stereotypes are representative of the work I've done, nor the range of the audience that work has found. I've played lots of different roles, and they've connected with lots of different people.

Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn't. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things.