Quotes About Representation

I dreamed of being an NHLer the first day I played. Sometimes the other kids would say there are not many black players in the N.H.L. So I really followed as many black players as I could.

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.

Even as the leader of the party, my first duty always is to the people who elected me, my first duty always is going to be to represent the people of this riding in Ottawa.

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

The next Bond ought to be a woman or, at least, a black actor.

If I am elected to Congress, I will put the interests of our community first, and I will actively seek input and respond to it.

I have had the opportunity to speak to the people of South Jersey. I have held Tele-Town Halls, gone to countless events, and met with thousands of the individuals who make up our community.

When you show people on the big screen that could be our next-door neighbour or our cousin, it does have an impact on our lives.

Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.

We don't need union bosses to tell us how to take care of our people. We never have, and we never will in Mississippi.

Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.

My dad and I would go to Blockbuster and look for Asian films and we could never find any. If we saw a Jackie Chan movie we would watch that because it was so comforting to see a face similar to ours.

The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.

I want to make sure that ours is a party that is focusing on both middle class issues and not becoming a party of our two coasts.

When I go across the state, people are really asking the question, 'Who is up there fighting for us? Who is fighting for us at the state capital for the little guy out here, for the working Georgian, for the Georgian family?'

I think you should have some more lesbian women out here on the British TV!

Eurocentric women are beautiful, but they are not the only ones out here that exist.

My daughter is going to get to grow up in a world where she never sees herself being an outcast or feeling like she doesn't fit in.

One good outcome of elections is that fresh talent comes into the House of Commons.

If Latinos stay at home, we determine the outcome of an election.

Maybe I'm outdated in thinking this, but because I'm a young black woman and don't see very many being the lead in a film, I have this fear: 'Will I be working?'

I don't wear the sash to bed. But I make sure it is always clean. I have it in two colors, black and gray. And I make sure it goes with my outfit.

On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, 'cause I'm known for the tomahawk, besides the hair and the leather outfit and the whole thing.

There's a part of me that's trying to represent kids that don't necessarily have the same outlet that I have. I'm not looking towards a new demographic. I'm looking towards the demographic I came from.