Quotes About Representation

I'm in favor of anything that will give strong women more visibility in popular culture.

I think there is much more queer visibility than there was when I was a kid. There is marriage, more trans visibility, and many more celebrities who are open about the sexuality. This was so not the case when I was a kid.

I think it's so important to have visibility and to break down stereotypes and stigmas and everything that people are so attached to.

I love a company that puts their money where their mouth is when it comes to LGBTQIA visibility.

Asian-Americans are fighting for space and fighting for visibility and for acceptance.

It's important that queer people get visibility, particularly when they look, act, and speak in the way that they're comfortable with.

Danica Patrick, even if she was not super successful results-wise, did a lot for our sport and its visibility. That was an element that fans really did appreciate, and it brought some awareness and different eyes to out sport.

There's so many different identities out there and I think they all deserve some visibility.

The 'Transtastic' hat represents what I want to do with my life's work, combining my experience and visibility to improve the lives of other people and bring their often-overlooked stories to the media forefront.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

I think sometimes you have to imagine a fantasy world in which we are represented and visible the way we should be.

One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

Trademarks are usually metaphors of one kind or another. And are, in a certain sense, thinking made visible.

This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.

As a Muslim woman, I'm all too familiar with the media shorthand for 'Muslim' and 'woman' equaling Covered in Black Muslim Woman. She's seen, never heard. Visible only in her invisibility under that black burka, niqab, chador, etc.

We Americans forget or rewrite even our recent history, and accomplishments of any group not pale and male have tended to get downplayed or erased - one reason why Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and I founded the Women's Media Center: to make women visible and powerful in media.

Now, as in the past, rank is closely associated with modes of representation and display: with making an ordered arrangement of people or things visible and evident to onlookers in some fashion.

Presidents are not only the country's principal policy chief, shaping the nation's domestic and foreign agendas, but also the most visible example of our values.

We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race.

It is important that you're out, and it is important that you're visible.

We must do our part to make ourselves visible to the world. Let everyone see that being a queer parent of color is normal and happening right next door to them.

Visible success is important. It's important to be able to look on the TV and see yourself, turn on the radio and hear yourself. To see people from where you're from actually becoming successful.