Michael Enzi Quotes

It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

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

I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct.

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

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

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

There are all kinds of people who continue to be largely ignored by advertisers, whose lives largely go unseen. They deserve their moment.

At the end of the day, what I have is the power to give a louder voice to people who have issues, questions and problems.

In creating my YouTube videos, I don't want to speak for my audience and the people I represent; I want to amplify their voices.

Politics is who gets what, when, how.

An expert is someone who is capable of articulating the interests of people with power.

By us, and not for us

I've never even been invited to the GLAAD awards, to sit in the audience. I don't necessarily care, and I'm sure they will one day, and it will be fine, but I've never been invited to anything like that.

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

You can much better have an influence on the debate when you sit at the bargaining table and you can give input.

I'm known as a voice for a generation of people that don't have a voice.

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.

Representation makes a difference.

When we go and cheer Cynthia Erivo on in 'The Color Purple,' it's because we've elected her to be our voice. She sings 'I'm Here' for all of us.

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.

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.

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.