Justin Tranter Quotes

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes.

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.

The government at all levels is overly represented by white men. That's part of the problem, and I'm a white man.

There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.

If you go to a big publishing house, editorial aside, it's completely white.

I was doing a lot of networking in the Valley, and I found that it was not a very diverse environment, and most of the conferences and meetup events I went to, there weren't many women or people of color in those rooms.

Basically the real decision making in the Labour party is old white men, assisted by young, posh men.

I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.

Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.

One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white.

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.

In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white guys.

I don't like that politics is associated with middle-aged, greying men.

I think as soon as you're a woman, or any minority doing something, you automatically become a representative for it, and I think a lot of brilliant women's interviews are being wasted on talking about what it's like being a woman.

I think being a scientist is a position of respect and power and access, and it's a privileged position in society. And I think there are fundamental mechanisms that keep men and women from achieving the same level of power and access and privilege in society.

Sometimes people of color walk into these spaces that are dominated by the dominant culture, and we have to be better, not make as much trouble.

I don't want a middle-aged white man telling me how to write my feelings. It's not gonna work for me.

Writers of color are given certain messages - explicit or implicit - about what they're allowed to write about or what will be successful if they write about it. And white writers are given another set of implicit and, sometimes, explicit messages.

The only people I don't reach on a very personal level are straight white men. They don't really need another entertainer dedicated for them exclusively, so they're fine.