Quotes About Representation

For so long, the world has viewed West Indian culture as semiliterate and backward, which it is not. In my work, I have tried to give that world an exposure so the world can better understand it.

Acting is how I'll be able to change how Latinos are viewed in media and change how little girls see and talk about themselves.

aesthetic representation is not an analogue for the material positions, means, or resources of those populations.

Movie Jesus is a whole lot different from Bible Jesus

But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.

Via our FWP leaders, we have been instructed to deliver "no ivory tower writing" but to bring "the streets, the stockyards, and the hiring halls into literature." This admonishment bids us to accurately record our informants and to make them feel that they are critical to our mission.

Grant, in his message, has remembered all classes and conditions of men to Congress,

We know that the doctrine of equality leads by steps not only logical, but almost mechanical, to sacrifice the principle of liberty to the principle of quantity; that, being unable to abdicate responsibility and power, it attacks genuine representation, and, as there is no limit where there is no control, invades, sooner or later, both property and religion.

When Christian leaders act unjustly, it reflects on the character of God. Unbelievers watch and decide that if Christians are like that, their God must also be unjust.

I am the only one who can speak for them, and for the children we were.

The most ignorant young man, who knows nothing of the needs of women, thinks himself a competent legislator, because he is a man," Pankhurst told the crowd, eyeing the Harvard men. "This aristocratic attitude is a mistake.

A pair of dolphins swept by us in the water, flicking their heads out to get a look at us as they went. One of them made a chittering sound that wasn't very melodic. The other twitched its tail and splashed a little water our way, all in good fun. They weren't the attractive Flipper kind of dolphins. They were regular dolphins that aren't as pretty and don't get cast on television. Maybe they just refused to sell out and see a plastic surgeon. I held up a fist to them. Represent.

You are placed on this earth to represent God.

Have you ever considered that for some people in your life, you might be the only Christian they know?

Whether they represent us as clowns or criminals, the main thing is that they mention us, that they concern themselves with us again and again.

I understood for the first time the meaning in the practice of suttee. Widows did not throw themselves on the burning raft out of grief. The burning raft was instead an accurate representation of the place to which their grief (not their families, not the community, not custom, their grief) had taken them.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

We are at a point now where people respect us and respect our work - the guys want to sit down and watch women's matches.

I'm doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys.

If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.

I work closely with Hispanic leadership.

If the early morning sky was a representation of every person I know, you are the sun and everyone else are the fading stars, soon to disappear by your blazing love. Good morning.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.