Quotes About Visibility

Seeing Mexicans in the media is rare. Seeing role models on TV is rare. So who do we look up to? We're not seen on football fields or basketball courts. So we look up to fighters; they're Mexican. They are out there fighting, representing their people, and winning champions. We look up to them.

I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.

People notice me and I'm thankful for that all the time.

My small jobs were basically... cut a ribbon somewhere or fly to be a judge in some pageant in Darjeeling. It was those small kinds of jobs which sort of kept me going and I am thankful for people to even notice me.

Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.

You can Google me, and I'm pretty sure the first thing that comes up is 'gay,' so that's out there, and I'm proud of that.

I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the radio or something but until they get several impressions of who you are - from whatever it is, whether TV or a live show, I feel like they don't quite connect the dots.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.

One of the most important things we hear is the S.B.A. needs to be ubiquitous. We do all these things, but people still don't know.

The most important thing is to recognize how important it is to market yourself and make connections.

The one thing about being on 'ER' that has changed is that I'm more easily recognizable.

I want more images onscreen because when I was growing up, I think, like, that one kiss in 'The Color Purple' was the one thing that I had. Or 'The Watermelon Woman.'

I don't want to write a book; I don't want to go on T.V., because I stink at it. The only thing I have always been comfortable with is being in magazines.

The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.

What I want to see is more mixed casts. We need it. People need to be brave - in the real world, everyone and anyone is around. So if people get to see themselves on the stage, they'll want to come.

In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.

I've love to do more movies. Just because I'm interested in the medium very much. I've done a lot of theatre at this point, and I've done a lot of TV. I've done a few independent films, but a lot of them have not seen the light of day. It'd be really nice to be in a film that gets out there.

Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.

Sorry no one could see how beautifully happy we were.

have of themselves. Hiding behind the crowd may be because of shyness. It may also be because of self-esteem issues. Similarly, being the centre of attention may be because of self-assurance or a way of masking the real self. Bringing these aspects to the client's attention through this visualisation may be a first step towards 'unmasking' and finding the true self.

To begin consciously searching into the world of mental illness is to see it snap into focus before your eyes. It is everywhere. It has been hiding in plain sight, awaiting notice. Its camouflage is little more than the human instinct to reject engagement with the pitiable, the fearsome, the unspeakable—and to close our eyes to the moral obligations that those states of being demand of us.

Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him?' declares the Lord" (Jeremiah 23:24).

If our lives are truly hid with Christ in God, the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.