Quotes About Representation

How will I become Meryl Streep if I can't even get in the door with Jennifer Lawrence for the same role? I think that it starts with casting directors and executives and studio heads opening up their minds, and really putting an effort into being trans inclusive in their projects, whether they're trans-specific or not.

I'd love to see an openly gay player, a really, really good gay player come out.

It's 2018, and being an openly gay man and an athlete, that is part of the face of America now.

On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.

Theater will cast in a more open way; Denzel Washington might play Richard III. Television and film don't really cast openly like that. The theater world has always been a leader in diversity.

The way I was raised, I didn't have a role model who was openly out.

There are not actually many people in Finland who are openly gay together, let alone two women.

There's not a lot of black Republicans that are willing to openly identify.

I've become aware of being in a very male-dominated industry where a door opens and it's like, 'Oh hello, it's 12 men and me. Again.'

Support women directors. When a play opens, and it's by a woman, put your money down.

So many black kids aspire to be entertainers or professional athletes because those are the only role models they see that look like them. There are only 300 jobs in the NBA but an endless amount of opportunities as an entrepreneur. With enough hustle, entrepreneurship opens doors to a world of opportunities.

I think, I want to see a Republican Party that has more folks that, that look and sound and operate like I do.

I am an African American public official operating in an environment dominated by Caucasians. That is not too dissimilar from what I had to do in Mississippi to get elected and stay elected. I try to show them we are all in this together.

In most science-fiction pictures, the black guy is either an engineer or a radio operator, and he is the first guy killed - gone from the movie.

We're very clear on 'black-ish' about how many opinions are voiced by Dre Johnson.

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity

You've got to be a warrior," her father told her. "There are certain things you might have to do, for the sake of all black people. And no matter what you do as an individual, you're reflecting your group and your family. So make sure you're correct.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Some painters turn a yellow dot into the sun, others turn the sun into a yellow dot.

En el Congreso de Tres Cruces, el 5 de abril de 1813, Artigas expresó ante la multitud reunida: "Mi autoridad emana de vosotros y ella cesa ante vuestra presencia soberana", es decir reconocía que el poder era del pueblo y que él era solo el delegado.

When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like 'Saint George and the Dragon' or 'The Rape of the Sabine Women,' but the angle you use, the lighting, the composition, the technique, they're all you. You are every color and brushstroke.

That we have evolved capacities for social interaction means that we tend to represent morality and misfortune in a very special way, which makes the connection with supernatural agents extremely easy and apparently obvious.