Quotes About Representation

The only thing that said 'Lando Calrissian' was ethnic was his looks.

As an ethnic actor, I still feel I can't be in 'Downton Abbey' or in period dramas.

As an ethnic female in wrestling, there will be people reading my words and I want to set an example. I did experience racism.

I've always made a point to play roles that aren't specified by their ethnicity.

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.

We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.

The whole ridiculousness of black Hollywood - there is no black Hollywood. It's every man for himself.

There are no historic firsts, no grand gestures, no monuments or museums that undo generations of exclusions under law, policy, and practice, or that stop the expulsion. It makes me want to holler. Tell the truth. What is this symbolic republic?

For example, to a viewer who has never seen an actual atomic reactor, what they are sensing can be described as a teapot, both of which are hot and 'cook'.

You know who has tenure? The pope has tenure. The Queen of England has tenure. So does Fidel and the communists - because they represent the people, of course (scoff). Federal judges have tenure as well - no federal judge has ever successfully been removed. And then there's the college professors. Me. How do you like that?

Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?

You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

A poor writer is one who names rather than represents.

Literature is necessary to politics above all when it gives a voice to the one who doesn't have a voice, when it gives a name to the one who doesn't have a name, and especially to all that political language excludes or tends to exclude…Literature is like a ear that can hear more than Politics; Literature is like an eye that can perceive beyond the chromatic scale to which Politics is sensitive.

My work had two objectives: the presentation of every type of folktale, the existence of which is documented in Italian dialects; and the representation of all regions of Italy.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

People who are gifted to preach, prophesy and represent God must be careful to stay humble, or they will contract and spread the deadly infection of pride.

The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.

I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists.

so democracy means more than just going to vote. Democracy means that people should truly have the opportunity to govern their own affairs. The

Politicians now think they have to educate the electorate and explain to them what is good for them. Gone are the days when the electorate educated their representatives .