Andrea Mitchell Quotes

When people say, 'I don't see you enough,' well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist, or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.

I don't feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether they're seen or not is another issue.

Visibility is a tricky thing; is someone visible when you can point her out in a crowd, or when you understand what her life feels like to her?

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

I don't think that the country is ever ready to have the conversation about race.

It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is nice to be part of the conversation - just be sure they are talking about you in the right way.

The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not.

Up until recently, I've said, 'I don't notice the sexism in the industry.'

I gotta stay in that light where people will see me and hear me. And not be scared of me, you know?

One of the kinds of things I'm consistently interested in is what the border between the seen and not seen is and the border between being able to perceive something and not perceive it.

My grandfather used to say I don't care how you talk about me, good or bad, just don't leave me out of the conversation.

To those who see the magical surface of things, you are invisible.' Good grief. Will you still be able to see me?' He met her eyes in a way that made her shiver pleasantly. 'I see you in a great many ways. It would be hard to blind me in all of them.

The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.

If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.

Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.

Obviously we can't do what we do if no one is paying attention.

I just don't believe that there's any way that you're ever gonna get one peace, because everybody has different ways of seeing life.

In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.

I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.