Clare-Hope Ashitey Quotes

Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.

This is an important appointment to a community that has often felt excluded from the decision making process.

Listening to an underserved population is how you begin to understand them and serve them better.

Look, yes, I'm a Muslim woman and I want to bring my community to the table, but I also want to make sure that I'm not being tokenized.

If you're not represented, then sometimes you might not feel hopeful and don't feel like you can do something that other people are doing when you're just as worthy as they are.

It's not about just diversity; it's about authenticity. Audiences are really excited to see more of themselves on the screen.

I think it's important for not just me but women of color, trans women, and people who are marginalized to be telling stories of themselves. It's important for us to be behind the lens.

I am probably an outsider because I challenge conventional narratives about who should have a seat at the table.

Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!'

I want women and girls of African descent and of color to be able to not have to keep searching for stories about themselves.

I think we need to not speak over black women, not assign them labels.

I've always felt like I was an actor for hire. And almost apologetic for being a woman of color, trying to stifle that voice. But I don't feel that way in Shondaland. I feel like I am accepted into a world where I'm a part of the narrative - I'm a part of it.

It's important for Asian American kids to see themselves in stories and to feel seen. They need to know that their stories are universal, too, that they, too, can fall in love in a teen movie. They don't have to be the sidekick; they can be the hero.

I want to keep doing projects that speak for people within the community and tell different types of meaningful stories.

There's something to be said about seeing your face represented. There's just something really important about that. It just draws you in more.

For readers of color, and especially black readers, black girls, I just want them to feel seen. And not just seen - I want them to feel epic and know that they are epic.

There are so many voices that tell people, especially queer people, that they don't have importance and regality.

I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.

There's a burden of responsibility for me to show up correct - in my head, if I don't do it right, then I'll get shut out, and then other trans women of color will be shut out.

I hope to see more Latino stories on television - not just on a personal level, but for us in the industry. We shouldn't just exist when a show is attempting to be diverse. We have good stories, and we are worth it.

I mean, so hopefully soon there's enough women and enough people of colour and enough of every group out there that feels that they get the recognition they deserve, and then we don't have to talk about it anymore.

Special things happen when you center people who haven't been centered before.

We need to reach out to more Canadians to show them that they could see themselves reflected in our party.

If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or separate; Othered. So, representation is super important.