The truth is always more heroic than the hype, reminding us that honesty can be a brave act. Admitting we’re not heroic can be the most heroic thing we do, while heroes often emerge in dangerous, uncivilized moments. Literature and history show that heroic resolve pushes past old conventions.
![“I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black men in a barbershop. But it was painted on the same level and with the same urgency that you would see in a grand-scale [Anthony] van Dyck or…” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a08/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_i-think-at-the-l-a-county-museum-of-art_1563358.jpg)
