Quotes About Representation

The way the world sees women vs. men is a subject that really interests me.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

There is also a beast, a beast of strange dimensions. He has the head of a horse and the body of a man who needs a lot of attention. He represents me in college: I was a dork-ataur.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether she be a heroine or not, can often be the wart on the man.

I had fewer female clients. I don't know why. It was always the men who chose me. And the ones whose secrets I had to hold. I represented Sophia Loren. She was jailed in Caserta for 17 days.

Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig bringing down the building.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of a man ; not of Tree, only a tree.

I'm very hairy, and men in film and TV are no longer allowed to be hairy.

I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?

Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

Men in particular need to speak more about their personal reasons for wanting diversity in the workplace.

There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.

Man or woman in the White House. How about that?

You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

About 97% of the media is created by men.

Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...