Quotes About Representation

I want all of the blue collar American working class people to know that I'm out there fighting for them.

I love putting people to work of color.

My big entrance into this industry was playing an enslaved person, which is an absolute clich of people of color.

There's a difference between actresses of color and actresses not of color. If you look at how big my movies are.

What can we do to put more Colorado in Washington and less Washington in Colorado?

Art is colourblind - the only colour thats meant to be in art is on the canvas.

Because I was assigned female at birth and I am light-skinned, white, I think people hear my message more than they hear it from someone who was assigned male at birth and is a person of colour.

I'm a gay man of colour.

We're trying to give back to artists of colour and make the journey for them a little easier.

I am proud of the fact that I have co-produced the film 'A Billion Colour Story.'

I would wish we would get to a place of colour-blind casting, where it didn't matter what colour skin you are, where you came from, anybody could play anybody and we didn't judge it.

I know there are girls of colour out there who have felt the same as me.

I would say 'The Big Narstie Show' is the United Colours of Benetton; it's for everyone. But I would definitely say that it has a black appeal, because that's what I am.

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

In the comedy world, there's always been one woman to five men. I think that's changing, that we're being respected more as writers and comedians.

You don't get white comedians being asked to talk about their race in their shows. I should be given the same agency to talk about what I want to talk about.

There are a lot of great disabled comedians.

Any comedic roles that I've gone out for usually end up going to a white woman or a gay man instead.

I want to show there's an edgier side of people who love comic books. And there are people who don't look like you and me who do read comic books and who love artists.

I think that comic books have appealed to female readers for years.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

Dwayne McDuffie was one of my favorite writers. When I was growing up, he was one of the few African Americans working in American comics.

I hate when I get asked, 'What's it like to be a woman in comics?'

Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures.