Quotes About Representation

I get it that the media is going to show the worst part, because that's the part that people want to see. But they have not represented Israel or Palestine, however people want to call it, they haven't represented it well at all. Go to the beach! You won't know this place from California.

I'm Muslim. I'm Palestinian. I'm a woman in a hijab.

My mere existence as a member of Congress as a Palestinian causes a lot of fear, because I'm here as a human being, as an American, that is saying to the world that we exist.

From being on a panel show, they always need the blonde airhead sat in a corner they can make fun of, and I'm here to go, 'No, we're not the punchline.'

The problem isn't that there's not enough women in panel games. The problem is there's not enough women in comedy in general.

There's no excuse for panel games, other TV comedy shows, or even live bills to be made up mainly of men.

Female standups are like hustlers. We have to be. We fight to get gigs or on to panel shows. We're made to earn it in a very different way to men.

It is noticeable how many times you see a panel at a conference made up of all men or look into the audience and see very few women, whether it is an event focused on technology or business.

When people say, 'There aren't enough women on panel shows,' the answer is to make the host a woman.

We can all agree that the best part of 'Black Panther' was his female army, the Dora Milaje. They made the movie.

I want people, no matter who they are to be inspired by 'Black Panther.'

The cool thing is, I was a little nervous about how they were going to handle Black Panther in his own movie, but then when I saw 'Civil War' and just the perfect way they handled him in that movie, it made me even more excited about a Black Panther film.

As a major feature film with Asian Americans in leading roles, 'Crazy Rich Asians' is important. We hope that this movie will be our 'Black Panther,' announcing to Hollywood that we are here, we belong, and we are ready for more.

I'm a huge fan of 'The Avengers,' but 'Black Panther' was so special to me.

So, yeah, if I could play anyone, I think it would be Black Panther.

What was so exciting for me about Wakanda and seeing 'Black Panther' was how incredible the women were in it.

I've done the gay, over-the-top guy. I want to jump into another show where I wear pants for the majority of the time.

Historians and scholars have access to every issue of every newspaper and journal written during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s but can access only a comparative handful of papers covering the election of Barack Obama.

Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.

I don't want people abroad to see India like it's shown in a film like 'Slumdog Millionaire.' We are at par with the world.

If you think about the way we experience art, the paradigm is still Western European. If I go to the National Gallery, what am I going to see the most of? I'm not going to see a whole lot of black figures in pictures.

I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing.

Gender parity in management is a necessity.

Many businesses understand the advantages of gender parity.