Quotes About Visibility

I'm trying to be a voice for the North African Arab community. We've got to continue to fight for our place in the industry.

If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.

I'm not ashamed to be gay.

Physical pain pales beside moral suffering, but arouses more pity since it can be seen.

Page 9: Whereas civil rights reform was driven by a mass-based social movement and was characterized by intense controversy, polarized voting blocs, regional tension, and high media visibility, immigration reform was primarily an inside-the-beltway effort, engineered by policy elites largely in the absence of public demand or controversy.

In order to see, I have to be willing to be seen.

He wondered what percentage of the world's art was actually kept in bank vaults and the like. Like unread books and unplayed music, did it matter that art went unseen?

A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

What's the point of doing anything if nobody's watching?

What you see is what you get.

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.

One woman in a photo makes it harder for us to ignore that the men are men.

Perché bisogna portare con sé la propria vita come uno spettacolo effimero e invisibile agli altri?

Because if you walk in a city you're jostled by hundreds of indifferent people with indifferent eyes that look at you as if you weren't there at all. You begin to feel you must be invisible. Hundreds and thousands of eyes, and not one pair really seeing you or caring who you are. I'd rather walk down Beilford High Street and know that everybody was saying, 'There goes the mad painter!' It's better to be mad than invisible." She

'Love, Simon' is incredibly dope, but that's one specific experience, and I would love to see more versions of that story being told or other stories that we haven't even seen yet from the LGBTQIA community.

I'm a breath of fresh air, and there hasn't been something this black on TV for a very long time.

If you're in people's living-rooms, via the television, it's what happens. You're more noticeable. But I'm not aware that anyone has said I pay a lower rate of tax. I don't. I pay my full share of tax, believe you me.

Fans write to us via our publisher and more than ever via the Internet, blogs and fan sites, and good writers should be actively seeking out that interaction. Gone are the days when writers are dead or hidden away in dusty attics; nowadays, you've got to get out there.

Growing up, I never saw any Asian faces on TV, so it didn't feel like a viable option.

On stage, I need to be seen from the back seats. So, I dress more colorful and vibrant.

It would be a sign of society changing if we did finally legalize prostitution. Once it's legal, it doesn't mean your daughter's going to run out and be a ho. The more we sort of bring these things into the light, you bring these hidden vices into the light, the less power they have over our society. You make it legal, it tends to go away.

It's nice to have video play, radio play but as long as I can work my virals on the Internet, or yet get it out to where people hear it and can see it anytime, I'm cool.

Some of white middle America haven't seen a black gay guy in a music video before.