109 Quotes About Representation

Representation is chump change, darling. I'm sorry to break it to you. People who hold power don't like to put themselves at risk. And that's why Queer people have generally been the visionaries. Because when your everyday life is a risk, you start to think about it all differently. You start to realize that organizing your days around keeping yourself protected is dumb as shit and that there's a whole universe of meaning and connection when you get beyond that.

How could any of the swamp people explain this comfortable face they saw on television that held a universal magic capable of mirroring the faces of countless millions of ordinary people, who like themselves, had been duped by their own sense of community into recognizing some uncanny likeness and affinity between themselves and Warren Finch?

There is truly something to be said about the fact that you sometimes can't see yourself if you can't see other people like you existing, thriving, working.

Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality.

She often treats him as though he represents his whole species. He does the same to her.

The people doing all the programming and making the decisions don't look like the kids and adults they're planning for, and no matter how good their intentions, we need to have a seat at the table too.

Representing people always involves reducing them, and calling a project "done" involves making an uneasy truce with that reduction. But some part of me rails against that compression. Some part of me wants to keep saying: there's more, there's more, there's more.

There is nothing that suits us more than most of the world believing that their will is being carried out by governments that do exactly as they please.

Bajan PrideI am the “Pride of Barbados”Yes I am,Representing my countryfrom land to land,Standing talland walking proud,Bajan representationin every crowdWherever I travelin this world,I will always be A Bajan Girl