Quotes About Visibility

Who needs to hear today that they are not invisible or unimportant to God? — Mary Kay Moody —

What is the use of being exquisite if you are not seen by the best judges?

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.

When I won my first MMA fight, I put myself out there for the world to see me.

Nobody put the camera on the background singers who were singing. It was on Stevie Wonder. It was on Elton John. It was on whoever was the lead singer out front. We were 20 feet from stardom.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

People who are exposed to great Wonder Woman stories love her. You have to do your best work and get it out there so people can experience it.

I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

I think the happiest time of my life was when I was in my late teens. I was a little bit of an it-girl. Making myself seen. And it was a wonderful time to be young.

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

I don't think I am even that popular. In fact, people must be wondering who the hell Nia Sharma is!

A lot of people have the expectation that politicians shouldn't just disappear into the woodwork even if they didn't win the election.

Perfectionism and procrastination have such a fine line. You say, 'Well, I want it to be good. I want it to be perfect.' But what you're really doing is not doing your work. You're putting off showing up and being visible because then you're going to be judged, and it might suck.

You work hard enough everybody going to see it.

I've been told no a thousand times and 'Model Search' gave me the opportunity to be seen, to be heard.

I really do hope 'The Hate U Give' provides mirrors for readers who don't often get them in books. I've had so many young black girls tell me just how thrilled they are to see someone who looks like them on the cover. I hope that they see themselves in the pages as well.

Let's get one thing straight: I am not an adrenaline junkie. Just because you cover conflict doesn't mean you thrive on adrenaline. It means you have a purpose, and you feel it is very important for people back home to see what is happening on the front line, especially if we are sending American soldiers there.

There is much about the shared terrain of being a black person in the United States that is not seen on small or silver screens or in museums or best-selling books, and much of what gets ignored in the mainstream thrives, and is celebrated, on Twitter.

Chris was very comfortable in the public eye and thrived in that kind of environment. I, less so.

You'd be surprised at how many times I'd hit the ball, and the hair would go straight into my eyes. That's why, even when I play indoors, I wear a visor, because it stops that, and I'll apply a lot of gel and hairspray to keep it tight.

You look tight on camera, it sees it. The camera can see everything.

Sometimes," says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence.

I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.