Harris Faulkner Quotes

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.

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.

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

I want to see as many black professionals as possible.

Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.

I really am happy that I met my agency and my management company, because they see me as a person and not just a Latin woman.

Let us do justice to them [the Jews].... Let us open to them every career in which ability and energy can be displayed. Till we have done this, let us not presume to say that there is no genius among the countrymen of Isaiah, no heroism among the descendants of the Maccabees.

We've got to make sure our veteran, Democratic veterans are strengthened and feel like they are fully included.

I feel that for a lot of my career, I had success, I was adored, but I was also this alien creature. I want to show that I have the skill like any other female model, and I'm asking for the same equal treatment and equal respect as any other female model.

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

Naming something, putting it on record, in a lyric, feels like affirming people. Ideally, that's what politicians should want to do: to put laws or policies in place that speak to people's experiences, to make them feel heard.

The first thing I think about when somebody says you're going to be the first Muslim is celebrate this moment.

I can't imagine how hard it must be to invest in a community... when you don't feel heard and when you don't feel seen.

Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded.

I don't see it as pressure at all. I see it as such an honor to just in some sort of way represent Puerto Rico and Hispanics and all the girls out there.

The shows which have strong female characters are long overdue. I think there should be more and I am glad to see that there are more. There are fantastic female and diverse actors all around the world. I am glad to see that they are getting more recognition and being pushed into light more and more.

I like the idea of a broader range of people feeling seen.

There's so many other talented women of color who write funny things every day, and I want them to be recognized, I want them to have a seat at the table because we're out here.

I hope that we always have diversity, that we have equality and representation every step of the way.

I want things to be great for people of color and for women.

f you don't have a seat at the table, then bring a folding chair.

I think anybody has - regardless of your gender, we all have equal value. If you have value to bring and value to provide, you just have to be willing to use your voice.

The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute accepts people of any race. We don't discriminate against anyone. We teach people to reach their highest potential. I set examples by the way I lead my life.

Imagine if we could create the most just workplace in the world. We would naturally be a magnet for all the great minds out there.

I feel at home in Shondaland. I feel a lot of things at Shondaland, but one of the things I feel that I haven't felt before is at home. I feel accepted for who I am and acknowledged for who I am. I feel like my ideas are embraced.