Quotes About Representation

In the one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread in the other.

To be published as a "woman of color" makes me squiggle on a pin: I want to be read by white people, and not just white people who are interested in "black" writing. I want even my speaking about color to speak in some universal way.

A photograph is a cipher for which we consult our own code books.

It never really occurred to me to seek out a female influence, a female musician.

When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

I don't have all the answers, so my goal is to make sure that the 180-some odd members of the RSC each have a seat at the table where we can talk about their vision.

It's odd to say we had our first African American president before our first African-American-owned movie studio, but we're making progress.

It's not odd to be a female in a band anymore. It's not odd to be a girl carrying a guitar case to a gig.

I think we have a long way to go in the entertainment industry, particularly in movies, but I feel like in television, there's somebody is finally saying, 'Hey, women have stories to tell, and oddly enough, women want to hear them.'

I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.

When I first began competing, brands were quite hesitant to feature disabled athletes in advertisements, perhaps due to a fear of offending consumers.

We are in a diversity age. I talk about the lack of diversity for black Americans, but what about the Asian Americans? You don't see them very often. They have a show called 'Fresh off the Boat.' No one is talking about that show. I saw it, and I found that show completely offensive, but I'm not Asian American.

We have to build that African-American offensive coordinator/quarterback coach that is going to be a head coach. I think that's our job as head coaches - to find those guys.

I don't know why I am not offered woman-oriented films. Films like 'Satrangee Re' went house-full at some centres, but I didn't have much to do in the film. Everyone came up to me and said that I looked pretty but nothing beyond that.

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

I get offered a lot of black roles, because apparently I don't look Latino enough.

In America, I am brown; I'm 'of colour', so I would be offered Latin roles, and I've fought against that. I don't want to be put in a category, to be just offered the same sort of thing. For me, it's all about different roles, telling the stories of the great writers.

As black women, we're miles behind our white counterparts in being offered the space to create and craft female characters in major blockbuster films.

Being a people's party cannot mean being a kind of all-purpose political shop that offers something for everyone.

The office of the president is meant to confer dignity.

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

Before 'Cagney and Lacey,' we didn't follow officers home to find out what they did when they took their badges off and emptied their guns. So the idea that these women also had lives outside of work was really interesting to play.

Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people.