Quotes About Representation

There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

We should not allow the fundamentalists and the bigots to take over and speak for the great faiths any more than we should let them take over and speak for the great nation.

The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.

I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.

Where the women go, the culture goes.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are people who are black and brown.

Recorded history is wrong. It's wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.

History breaks down into images, not into stories.