representation quotes

Here’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

I carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

I think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

It’s an honor for me to represent urban music, reggaeton, trap and hip-hop.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.

I’m just blessed, man, to be able to represent solidarity with the small schools I went to.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.