Quotes About Representation

If we do want to bring a woman in to direct a 'Star Wars'... we don't want to talk somebody into it.

'Star Wars' is so much bigger than any single person involved, so you feel like you want to do that justice and also feel like you want to do justice to that little girl inside me that never saw anyone who looked like her, that person who's starving for representation - it's a lot.

A lot of 'Star Wars' fans who are specifically Asian never had a character they could dress up like, or they would, and people would always call them 'Asian Rey' or 'Asian fill-in-the-blank.'

We have no one to stand up for the fighters' rights. If something bad were to happen, no one backs him, and it's just him alone, and everything gets washed out. We need people to stand up and fight for it.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

There's a coalition of folks here in Georgia who want representation that's focused on local economic development and on accountability and not on the partisan circus in Washington.

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.

President Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi represent what mainstream America is rejecting about Washington, D.C. And that is this out of touch with the people.

The whole notion of an embassy is like 'The Other.' That's what makes Washington interesting.

There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.

Having brought diversity to the air in the way that we have with Kerry Washington and Viola Davis toplining their shows, and then shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' and 'Black-ish,' have been very important. I look forward to continuing in that vein.

That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

Arabia, like Ireland, is mostly a country in a movie.

Muslim preponderance in the police and the army' would be hit.

Every Indian election in the eighty-two years since the pact— whether nationwide or in a state, town or village—has been conducted on the basis of that pact, with reserved seats for Dalits but without a separate electorate.

a minority community would have 'weightage', i.e. a representation larger than what the population ratio warranted

Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

the District Teachers Guild of Vizianagaram and the Central Jewish Board of Bombay

member from the United Provinces, Begum Aizaz Rasul