Quotes About Representation

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

You can have Asians being leading men that are sex symbols. You can have leading women powering through.

I hate when they portray women as just sex symbols in short skirts, running around playing dumb. I refuse to watch such films or be in such films.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

There is a systematic effort to destroy every black male entertainer's image. They want us all to have an asterisk by our name.

Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story, the genealogy, the rights of man, the rule of law. The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

She complained there was no 'café au lait'-colored construction paper for her skin, or 'sixty-percent-cacao-chocolate' color for her eyes. I remember staring at her while these words came out of her mouth, and thinking, Your skin is light brown. Your eyes are dark brown. Why don't you just use brown, you idiot? Jay Stringer didn't complain about the paper, and neither did any of the other ten kids using brown.

This often has a lot to do with racism and sexism, and the stories we are "allowed" to tell as people of colour.

Ethnic minorities were 10 times more likely than whites to eat at a table where they were the only representative of their race.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

For indeed when painters themselves wish to represent sirens and satyrs [20] by means of especially bizarre forms, they surely cannot assign to them utterly new natures. Rather, they simply fuse together the members of various animals. Or if perhaps they concoct something so utterly novel that nothing like it has ever been seen before (and thus is something utterly fictitious and false), yet certainly at the very least the colors from which they fashion it ought to be true. And

Là où la royauté a pu se maintenir en devenant « constitutionnelle », elle n'est plus que l'ombre d'elle-même et n'a guère qu'une existence nominale et « représentative », comme l'exprime la formule connue d'après laquelle « le roi règne, mais ne gouverne pas », ce n'est véritablement qu'une caricature de l'ancienne royauté.

Dans la numération chinoise, la croix représente le nombre 10 (le chiffre romain X n'est d'ailleurs, lui aussi, que la croix autrement disposée)

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

This is not a pipe.

I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.

Just as Diana Prince is never around when Wonder Woman shows up, Venus is either a Morning Star or an Evening Star, never both simultaneously.

Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.

The old man smiled. "It should be perfectly obvious what you have to do. Give women the vote. That will do away with tyrants and dictators instantly. Women will always opt for sensible and compassionate over warlike and corrupt