Quotes About Representation

Yellowface enables racist caricature—but it also denies Asian actors the opportunity to play Asian roles.

The solicitor he selected, a Mr Makepeace, had demanded five thousand pounds up front, even before he took the top off his fountain pen, and then another five once he'd briefed Alex Redmayne, the barrister who would represent him in Court. Danny couldn't understand why he needed two lawyers to do the same job.

few even have a woman on the board.

Well, the more women—this is something that Justice O'Connor often said, that women of our age should get out there and make a good show, and that will encourage other women, and the more women that are out there doing things, the better off all of us will be.

Why aren't our leaders advocating for conversation and understanding? DC has ceased to be that shining city on a hill, the very best representation of who we are as a nation.

Social media means we're listening to different voices. It's not just the same old powerful white men who all went to the same places for college. It means everyone gets a soapbox. And if you've got something important to say, you can get people to listen.

For the life of him, he couldn't figure why these East Enders called themselves black. He kept looking and looking, and the colors he found were gingersnap and light fudge and dark fudge and acorn and butter rum and cinnamon and burnt orange. But never licorice, which, to him, was real black.

They're all blackface caricatures.

Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.

I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.

You have to bring books to explain your work.

I'd love to work on a real girl piece with some fabulous actresses. I feel like I've worked with so many men.

There are already a number of gatherings centered around women of color who are doing inspiring work.

The way you present your work has a lot to do with how people receive and regard it.

You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work

I will take a short time out from being in Parliament when the baby is born but I'll still be doing my constituency work - just with another baby in tow.

I've done work for both Democrats and Republicans.

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.

Your work speaks for you.

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."