People Representation Quotes

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

Comedians are always narrating the story of the people. Always.

I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.

I represent hardworking people. That's who raised me. That's who I grew up around.

In all humility, I don't know that an endorsement from Mark Meadows is going to make a difference as much as the commitment of that particular candidate to really represent the people.

Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way.

Entertainment is one of America's greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think about people.

I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them.

I work with the people in the piazza, where there is reality. Here in Parliament, often there is a mystification of reality. They are not representatives of the people. They represent themselves and their own interests.

Let's start creating better roles that accurately depict people we know so closely.

Setting aside labels, I am somebody who believes that government in a democratic society should be representing the needs of the vast majority of the people who are middle-class and working families.