Shepard Smith Quotes

I grew up under the politics of my size and my skin. I grew up under the politics of the sound of my voice and a lack of agency, or a feeling of a lack of agency, and not always being able to find myself in images that were in the media.

Just speaking for myself, when I'm complimented for being Vietnamese-American in television - the only one - that doesn't make me feel happy, that makes me feel really lonely, actually.

I know that when we deprive communities of their voice, it can be dangerous.

When you never see yourself in the mainstream format, you are stripped of the strength of your identity.

If you were to turn on the TV in 1986, '87, you wouldn't see anybody having, I guess, a low-to-middle-income person of color experience. And you definitely wouldn't have a young LGBT person or their story told. The experience of being invisible in our culture has ramifications that I don't think any of us can really understand.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

Society is better off without certain people.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?

When you're told that as a filmmaker of colour, the stories you want to tell aren't commercial enough, then you start thinking, 'I'm going to tell them anyway.'

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.

In today's Britain, the weakest among us are often assumed to be minority communities. In fact, the weakest are those minorities-within-minorities for whom the legal right to exit from their communities' constraints amounts to nothing before the enforcement of cultural and religious shaming.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.

Politicians have forced us into parallel societies by denying for so long that we existed and pretending for so long that we were going home.

If you are on the wrong side of society you can’t win.

The working class is very under-represented in politics, literature, and everywhere else.

There is no kind oppression visited on any minority in Europe which the six-county Nationalists have not endured.

Society as a whole had sentenced me to a life of humiliation for the sole reason that I was not white.

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 this homogenization, this big sucking motion in dominant society, to absorb all the disparate elements that define the margin or define the culture or define those who are thrust outside the status quo.

When I was in school, you never saw anyone who looked like us that was on TV. And that was really weird for me because there's so many people of South Asian descent in America - in the world.

Black women do not have as many positive images in the media as we should.

All of my plays are about people who have been marginalized... erased from the public record.