Quotes About Inclusion

I'm about real representation in government.

People are making a lot more noise about representation and diversity. But I think modeling is one of the professions where people can be kind of racist.

Axone', of course, was on racism, but it was also a kind of representation that hadn't happened ever before of the Northeast and the people from there. It was a nicely-written script; it was funny.

When you speak to potential black and ethnic coaches who want to go into the game, one aspect that they always speak about are role models. They would like to see representation, more at a higher level. And any part I can play in that I am delighted to do.

Hopefully, we're moving toward a place where representation conversations won't have to happen so much because the playing field is more level.

Not all representation is good representation. I would argue a lot of the marginalized representation in TV and media is off, because a lot of the gatekeepers are white straight cis people who mean well and they think meaning well is enough, and it's not.

Representation goes a long, long, long way.

If people want to see more representation of trans people you just have to look around, because with the explosion of digital creation, lots of trans actors and film makers have been creating their own content and it's readily available.

The older that I've gotten, I now understand the power of representation.

We need representation of different chefs, as well as different foods.

What needs to change, really, is that we need better representation behind the camera. We need better representation among the people who tell the stories or the people who greenlight the movies.

I should be a representative for AARP!

You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.

I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.

The Indian community in the U.K. has a unique place in our diaspora. U.K. is the first country which has an Indian community truly representative of its diversity.

The New York City police department is more representative of the city it serves than most law firms, university faculties, and media companies.

The American experiment with representative democracy has been a great success, but we need to realize that it needs to be a genuine representative democracy where ordinary people have a vote, have a voice in choosing the candidates who represent them.

The Internet Governance Forum - which brings together NGOs, government officials and companies - needs to do a better job of including representatives from Africa, Latin America, and Asia and addressing their issues.

There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.

I shouldn't be the only African American Republican in the House of Representatives.

When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.

I like representing different kinds of black people - showing they exist.

I am representing California, and all of California, definitely as a Mexicano, a Chicano, a Latino.

Hollywood had a history of whitewashing and not representing.