Quotes About Representation

Washington, D.C. is not on the side of mainstream and main street America.

I think it's great that 'Drag Race' is mainstream.

I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.

What does it mean to have a Republican majority in the House? A lot of people think 'So what?' They should think again.

The majority of women in America look like me.

Usually I try to represent my community and my culture the best that I can, but I go about every day just trying to represent my family. I'm just trying to make a difference out in the world. I don't even look at, necessarily, just the Latin community, I'm looking at everything in general.

Politics can do without women. And they tried really hard to make it happen without women.

I just loved makeup. My mother loved it as well - and was obsessed by the fact that we couldn't find any makeup for dark skin.

I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can't be anything else in this lifetime than an African American man.

I view myself as a male artist.

TV does not have anything meaty to offer the male actors. It is a female-dominated industry.

I really am happy that I met my agency and my management company, because they see me as a person and not just a Latin woman.

I think 'manager' is a stupid word.

I'm looking forward to it, to be able to represent the black culture... but I'm doing my best at managing it, keeping it behind me, and that's the best thing I can do.

The film-school mantra is that if you don't tell your own stories, nobody will.

I'm trying to put plus-size on the map. We can be fashion-forward.

The girls are working so hard to put female wrestling on the map and to make it as big as the men. To see it actually happening... I'm so grateful.

I'm the national co-chair for the Women's March on Washington.

We, as communities that are marginalized, need to open up our minds and realize that we should be asking and advocating for more of everyone. Let's get more gay black men; let's get more trans women.

You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.

As an Asian man in the industry, you had to know martial arts.

The grasp of objects that bind us to some betokening.

A word is also a picture of a word.

Do we have to believe something happened exactly the way it was shown by artists?