Quotes About Diversity

I wanted to represent African-American athletes in a better way than what I saw when I grew up.

I am proud to represent New York's 13th Congressional District, which has one of the largest and diverse populations in the country.

My job as governor is different from the legislators. They represent their districts. I have to represent all 6.6 million Tennesseans and come to the best decisions I can.

I do fairly represent Middle Eastern women.

Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most uncomfortably.

It was very, very important to me to represent a broader swath of humanity that often isn't seen in futuristic sci-fi.

I think it's about time that we represent all women on the catwalk because that is a part of fashion.

To represent your country is always very nice.

I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to share the stage with any one of them.

I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.

Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.

I'm proud to represent the average woman.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.

If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone. There's a Russell Crowe... well, you know, there's a black Russell Crowe.

Pot lucks are fun, especially when you encourage your guests to bring dishes that represent their families or cultures.

When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to write the stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn't historically been represented in literature.

We have our own script. We have our own calendar. We represent the greatness of Africa's past. We also represent the worst of Africa's present, in terms of poverty. It is the best and the worst of African reality.

If I can represent that body type of women that isn't represented so much in media, then I'd be happy to do that.

I think if more designers designed clothes with a more fuller figure in mind, it would represent women in a greater sense.