Meaghan Rath Quotes

Growing up, I remember watching TV, and I didn't see a lot of people who looked like me, especially someone who passed as a glamorous model on a mainstream TV show.

There's a lot of people in Hollywood who don't look like me or don't have similar features like me.

It's hard as a young person of a different ethnicity or background to look at the TV and not see anyone who looks like you. Representation is very important.

I feel bad for my little cousins who don't see themselves being represented, or the little girls in my community who won't have a chance to see a Disney princess... who resembles them.

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

I know one of the reasons I first started making Youtube videos was because no one looks like me.

You go to Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Chicago, and you see Latinos everywhere; they are involved in every part of American society. That's why they have to start being represented in Hollywood, because an 'Americano' can't walk down the street and not see a Latino.

I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.

Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.

I'm really passionate about representation in film. I feel like the world is dominated by such a small group of human beings. There are so many different kinds of people that aren't represented, that don't have characters who look like them.

If you're going to make black movies only about black people, that's as bad as white movies only about white people.

There were so few examples of Asian or Asian-American lead characters on American TV or even in the movies. And the ones that have existed for so long were either stereotypical or offensive in some way, or just not reflective of the lives of people in the community.

When you cast cross-racially, another dimension is added.

I like representing different kinds of black people - showing they exist.

I don't want to be the next face of America.

Growing up, I was very aware that there weren't many people like me on the screen.

I want to create the content I didn't have while growing up.

I just didn't see any toys that looked like me when I was a kid.

If I go to the museum and see white bodies, black bodies, Asian bodies, Latino bodies, then I will expect to see those things every time I go. That matters a lot.

Children of color need a mirror to see themselves in. And then people who don't have that experience, they need a window. They need a really personalized way to see what people who are different from them are going through.

It's important that we're properly represented and for viewers to see all the bits and pieces of being a woman of color.

I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.

I didn't grow up seeing faces of patriots, emotional and raw and gritty, who looked like me.

It's hard to accept yourself when you live in a world where nobody is like you, or you feel like nobody is like you because there's no representation.

I want to represent Asian women.