Quotes About Representation

We live in a world that does not recognize virtually anyone outside of the white male or the beautiful white woman who has to be an object of desire and affection.

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

Trump is not some random, embittered person in a parking lot - he's the president of the United States. By virtue of his office, he speaks for the country.

We are carrying these images out into the world, and we can't control how people contextualize those images no matter how virtuous our aspirations and our intentions are.

The reason you write something that is exciting and visceral is to force people to hear what you have to say, especially if you're in any kind of marginalized community where people don't want to listen. You have to come up with tricks to make them listen.

Flags are about proclaiming power... that visibility is key to our success and to our justice.

I was surprised by the attention and visibility on me as a black woman CEO. I look forward to the day when this is the norm and not the exception.

Drag Race' is giving visibility to our community. It's on TV and you can see RuPaul, who is a black, queer, powerful figure who has run this empire for years, and I think that's an amazing thing.

Art is so valuable that I think its misuse is really dangerous. When it's used well, when it's telling a story well or creating representation or visibility for something that's really lacking, it can really save lives.

It feels like for a long time we, in the LGBTQ community, have been fighting for our role, sort of fighting for our visibility and fighting for our stories.

I think the first step towards exploring the unexplored side of the LGBTQ community is to show them on screen, to create a visibility.

I'm so happy trans visibility has increased immensely.

Without a doubt, the majority of historical period dramas tend to be told from a certain perspective. At least in America, black people have some visibility in period dramas, although it's usually in the form of slaves or servitude.

I can remember when there were storylines with gay characters on shows like 'Family' and 'Dynasty' and thinking, I have something in common with that person. This was way before the Internet and all the visibility that has brought with it.

I hope that in 50 years I can look back and say I made my most fervent efforts to provide visibility for the unseen.

'Formation' and 'Lemonade' speak to experiences that are too under-represented in our culture. But there are costs to certain forms of visibility. I don't think it is a bad thing to discuss what these costs are.

The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not.

As far as being a plus-size woman, I play a plus-size character by default, and for me, the visibility - that, I think, is key.

Visibility is not, in itself, always a good thing, but when it is in the hands of those who need positive visibility, it can be.

We need a lot more visibility of queer people in public life. People gotta get used to it.

It's tough advocating for trans visibility and not being pigeonholed as just a trans actress.

There's so much visibility for trans people, for gay men and lesbians, but there's still not a lot for bisexual people.