Quotes About Representation

With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I think our collective freedom requires that.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Twins are under-represented in the media. Hamlet - never twins. Hamlet Twins Of Denmark. King And Queen Lear. It would work. Come on, more twins on television.

I chase a little white ball around and work on my farmer tan, that's about it. I think that I've been lucky enough to represent some great companies, and I think maybe that's what it is.

I am privileged to be able to work for the people of Hawaii in whatever capacity.

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.

I've definitely gotten to work with female directors, and I feel lucky because of that. I just feel like more voices should be represented.

Man is the carrier of God's image

My work has been always presented to me in front of others by creating a unique individual.

Your craft is comprehensive if it represents you.

I think we're still struggling to find a way of depicting women that doesn't objectify them.

I will stand up for Mississippi like no one has done before. My voice will resonate most strongly in our struggling communities.

Once I take a case, I'm stuck with it.

In television, to be a hero and look like I look, that really stuck with me.

I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.

The Chinese Student Association at Cornell put together their own play. It was all Asian people in the cast except for me, because they wanted to do a couple of scenes about an interracial relationship. I was the only non-Asian person on stage; the entire audience was Asian apart from my 10 friends that showed up.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women.

I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.

I tend to bristle at people praising alt comics as some kind of perfect comics paradigm, because there's quite a lot of misogyny in its history as well. Like, in my first comics class, every single great comic creator we studied was male.

Numerous studies have shown that students of color achieve better educational outcomes when they have teachers of color in the classroom, and as our student body becomes more diverse we should be doing everything we can to reflect that diversity among the educators who are mentoring and inspiring our next generation of young people.

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

Studies demonstrate that as gaps are being closed between men and women - in access to education, in health, even in economic participation - the most difficult gap to close is in political participation. Somehow that sharing of raw power, political power, remains very illusive.