Quotes About Representation

I want to thank all the clubs I represented for allowing me the opportunity to do so.

We want to be the alternative party in Tamil Nadu.

I'm an ambassador 24 hours a day.

Because I play in NBA, I am like ambassador of Yugoslavia. Los Angeles before, nobody hear of Yugoslavia. Now I think much people who look at basketball hear of Yugoslavia.

I'm always trying to be a good ambassador for my country.

I might be an ambassador.

I always wanted to be an ambassador.

Even I feel I am an ambassador for the Indian police. Even if someone doesn't want to give me that credit, I want to have it for myself.

I am Indian-American, but I often play ethnically ambiguous roles.

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

I grew up watching films of predominantly white families speaking in English, and that this represented the American experience.

What does Washington experience have to do with meeting the needs of the American people?

We think that when the American people make a decision together that they want something, politicians have to listen to them, and that's the process we believe in.

I don't think it should matter to the American people what color skin is on their president. What should matter is the content of their character.

What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.

Lots of times when you watch anime, the characters all have white skin - all the characters in fantasy stories all have white skin, which I never liked.

I hope that in another way we can move the need to say, instead of being a Black director, or a woman director, or a French director that I'm just a director.

If you're the only woman in the room, and you raise your hand, there's a good chance your question's going to get answered. You stand out.

I am not trying to speak for anyone else, never mind an entire generation. I don't even know what that means.

Anytime you can be the face of the UFC is so huge, a great honor, and I would do everything I could to keep it that way.

Anytime you have somebody that's coming from where you come from, you take it a little personal because they represent what you represent.

Sometimes when you sign to label as a black artist, they expect you to have a certain appeal. It's like they think they know what appeals to your people better than you do.

I'm trying to be a voice for the North African Arab community. We've got to continue to fight for our place in the industry.

Mustafa Ali is who I wanted to see when I was growing up. I'm not wearing anything on my head; I'm not saying anything in Arabic. I'm just going to come out as Mustafa Ali.