Social Representation Quotes

It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life.

You can't get along in society without an identity.

The Senate needs a lot more diversity, and I bring quadruple diversity.

It's my mission in life to put people on the screen who don't get normally represented.

Media gatekeepers - editors, publishers, film studios and the like - need to begin investing in talent behind the scenes, developing and resourcing marginalized voices to tell their own stories. At the end of the day, it's about the story and what will enable the audience to truly see, understand, and know the life and times of the subject.

Primarily I see myself as so much more than a rapper. I really believe I am the voice for a lot of people who don't have that microphone or who can't rap.

The government has muffled the voices that best represent the most significant segments of society.

I think it's important to show every type of love on a show.

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

In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.

One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

Every generation has its own Goran. So I was the Goran of this generation.

Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better.

Any time you have people of different races in a movie that's about America, there's going to be a racial component.

I wanted to represent for Polynesians, and that was always my goal, because not everyone knows about us, and I just want to represent for them.

I'm proud that I can represent, within Cyborg, a couple of different groups. One being people of color, but also, Cyborg is a superhero that is in many ways disabled. So, being able to give representation from that end as well is something that's really powerful to me.

Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves.

There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.

The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.

It's a bummer interracial love is still such a big deal. To me, it's quite normal. I grew up seeing couples that were interracial. Who cares if it's a black guy and white girl, or an Asian guy and white girl, etc.? Odds are, every combo exists out there somewhere so why not put it on the screen? Shouldn't art imitate life?

I think it's not up to Congress to dictate what the right amount of diversity is, but I think it's Congress' place to ask the question, to any industry, in talking about what's going on out there. Is there a lack of preparation of the community to be ready to be involved in that industry?

If we want a Parliament that understands people's lives when it takes decisions, it needs to be representative of society, which includes having MPs who are parents of small children - both mums and dads.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

Celebrities are not necessarily the richest people of all, but on the face of it, they seem to be representative of the very richest people.