Vincent Rodriguez III Quotes

People of color and women are increasingly being shown on-screen. For things to be whitewashed just doesn't make sense.

It's not good enough to say we value diversity and then underrepresent women and minorities.

I want to see designers capitalize on a beauty that is not only white. I need them to stop acting like beautiful black and brown women do not exist.

I'm Asian, and I'm an actress, and I've been doing this since I was a teenager, so if anyone understands the conversation about misrepresentation and underrepresentation, it's me. I live and breathe it; this is my life.

We need more diversity - we need more African-Americans on screen, Latinos, Asians, different religions. We have to be better about reflecting what our world looks like.

I wish that all different types of people of all races and all upbringings were all equally represented in this industry that influences so many people.

It's impossible to play football in a world among men and not fight for equality.

It's great we have a female Thor. It's great we have a black Captain America. But those are just optics; it's optics of change... Unless you have the structural diversity, the structural change behind the scenes - more women, more people of color actually calling the shots and editing these books - those optics won't last.

The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.

I was the only one at stage school who wasn't white.

The University has a moral obligation to provide equal opportunities to women, minority persons and all other groups who work or seek to work at Harvard.

Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

When I first came out to L.A., Hollywood's idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.

In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.

As a white woman with a privileged education, I'm keenly aware that I founded an organization that can only realize its goal if it enlists many more leaders who share the backgrounds of the students and families we work with.

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting.

We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'

... equal responsibilities are less popular than equal rights.

Judges cannot mandate Black or Hispanic excellence.

I am working for the time when unqualified Blacks, Browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.