Representation Quotes

“Being the first black woman MP was important, but what's more important is that I'm not the last.”

“I came to Washington to work for Utah. Not to work for the Republican party.”

“I came into politics to speak for people who don't have a voice.”

“Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades. It's basically a U-turn back to a representational visual world.”

“I love that there's a show that sees that a woman who is not 22 and a size 0 can be a leading lady, can be a sexual person, can be a romantic.”

“I was a 13-year-old Black kid. I loved science fiction, but I didn't see myself in it.”

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”

“Westminster is a very white male-dominated institution and it's very easy to feel you don't belong.”

“You can't be what you can't see.”

“Foxy Brown is a landmark character because she's the first black female action hero.”

“My constituents expect me to be a leader and to exercise my own judgment.”

“It is not their real conditions of existence, their real world, that ‘men’ ‘represent to themselves’ in ideology, but above all their relation to those conditions of existence.”

“The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.”

“Blaxploitation films were the first time we saw black people in charge.”

“Women's voices need to be heard. We need more women at the table.”

“My moral compass, my conscience, and my constituents all tell me that military force is not the answer.”

“The Boondocks' is not the voice of Black America. It is the voice of Aaron McGruder.”

“My work has always been about visibility, about making the invisible visible.”

“I think of my art as a search for a way to do representational painting.”

“I'm a Black man from the Bronx who is now a Jedi. It's a very, very big deal.”