Quotes About Representation

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.

When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.

In history, the millions win; that is democracy.

I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

Id have to fight for an Australian role over an American actor, and I already have to do that overseas, so why would I have to do it back at home?

Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's a very destructive ideology.

Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?

The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.

It's great to know that young black girls are seeing themselves on TV as leading ladies, and I'm part of that. It's just such an honor.

The second-highest honor is playing for your country, and the highest honor is wearing the armband for your country. It shows that the players have confidence in me, and that feels good.

It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country's coach.

It's an honor to represent a Latin culture.

To represent your country is an honor and a great experience.

The Washington Redskin fan base represents honor, represents respect, represents pride.

I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race and the motion picture industry.

I really hope that the fashion community will not accept anything that does not represent everyone.

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.