Quotes About Representation

I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.

I am a mom as well as a senator!

This may be news to Big Money politicians, but they actually don't own our votes.

We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

Well, TV does a better job. In film, the justification has been that movies focused on stories or featuring people of color don't make money.

Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We don't all look alike.

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of their mother and cut out the eyes.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

[Barack Obama] and Michelle, in my heart, this is my personal feeling, epitomize what my mother and my father were. They are community organizers on a global level.

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.

Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.

We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.

I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.