Representation Quotes

Anything can be painted without representation.

When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture.

Old Glory represents our great American military and their sacrifices to ensure our freedom. This isn’t a political issue. This is about Patriotism, and we need more of it.

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.

I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse.

The federal government should only be flying the flag that represents all people, the American flag.

The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained – trained by inferior and insincere visual representations.

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.