Quotes About Diversity

I'm such a huge advocate for strong, intelligent representation of women in the media.

Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.

We need to have more conversations about representation as well as the imbalance in terms of needing more women behind the camera and in front of the camera, and the diversity factor.

Representation makes a difference.

As creators and as readers, we need to always be pushing it - by looking for the books, looking for the artists and people and stories to support what we feel to be a better representation of all women. Of real women.

I think that Linda Perry is such a beautiful example of strong female representation in the industry.

I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.

To represent the nation, you must have multiracial representation.

I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what a black writer has to do. I didn't have the burden of representation.

The only way to really change perceptions, to break down barriers, break down homophobia, is through representation. That's definitely not something I had as a kid. I never saw a gay athlete kissing their boyfriend at the Olympics. I think if I had, it would've made it easier for me.

There's so much talk of representation in politics and entertainment - it's everywhere - but I didn't realize representation was important until really my senior year of high school.

It's important to be able to have representation for black queer women, because I feel like there's not much representation for them in the mainstream.

I'm tired of cookie-cutter monolithic representation of black folks.

I never saw a true representation - an iconic hero - for myself. It just got boring, reading about all these really powerful and heroic white guys.

I believe that our show is hopefully a beacon of hope for certain people who think that they have been forgotten, that they don't have the support or representation. We're there for them and also to remind people that even though we are so divided, just a very open conversation can bridge that divide.

I can only speak for myself and what feminism means to me, and that is equality for every human being: equal rights, equal representation, equal pay, etc.

Representation is necessary, and we all want to turn on the TV and see characters who look like us and represent us in some way.

I definitely think the beauty industry is wising up. We are seeing a lot more representation and different people.

As much as I think that in the future we won't need labels, at the moment they're really important. So I'm making myself embrace that. I truly am proud to be queer. Even watching 'Queer Eye' is something that inspired me to say that. So that's the power of representation.

Representation means having characters with layers, showing them as human beings, so we can relate or have mixed emotions for that character.

I wanted to tour the United States because I feel I owe it to the community that I grew up in. When I was growing up, the only people I saw on TV were Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu and Jet Li. Our representation as Asians wasn't big, but I wanted to be like Lucy Liu and then Maggie Q.

I hope that we always have diversity, that we have equality and representation every step of the way.

If you take a step back, you realize that the TV landscape really has been... There have been some amazing shows in terms of representation, but not for Asian people.

First of all, Asian representation hardly exists to begin with.