Quotes About Representation

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are wronged By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.

I want to be known as a funny comic not just a funny Latino comic. I want to be able to go everywhere and anywhere.

On this show, your voice will be heard in the form of my voice.

Hoodie was just a nickname I had growing up and I just wanted to have a name that would stick in peoples' minds and be a little bit funny and representative of who I am.

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

There's a lot of guy comics who I think are funny, but I generally am more excited about a special or a show where there are females.

One of the many things I want to do is dig us out of that hole so that guys, in particular, can go: "Oh, yeah. Those people are really funny. I've seen that person. It's a woman. They are funny."

Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!

It is so cool to think that there are two female, Indian actresses on prime-time American network television who are considered attractive and funny and smart.

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.

There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.

Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League.

My goal is to let people see who I am as a person, not just a basketball player. Many people see athletes in a certain way - flat and one dimensional. I want to change that view.

Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.

Every woman I know in the broadcast business worked hard so we can talk about sports, not talk about us talking about sports. Ultimately, that's the goal. When the game starts, it's just a game.

I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.

My goal is to show girls that I'm fighting so they don't have to, so they don't have to fight the same battles, so they don't have to fight for wage equality or whatever it may be.

In movies, I hope women aren't always portrayed as sex symbols. People like Drew Barrymore are paving the way for girls my age. Hopefully I can pave the way for young actresses, too.

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.