Emcee Quote by Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice…

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it…

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

— Kerry James Marshall

Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Comics, in a sense, the style, the images - it's almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes…

— John Lewis

The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses.…

— Mark Frost

Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Just like in the art museum, and notions of beauty and pleasure, if the hero is always a white guy with a squared jaw…

— Kerry James Marshall

A comic is a way of literally experiencing someone else's vision with a purity that I don't think any other medium offers; there are…

— Chris Ware

Comics can do any kind of story. It's words and pictures, the only things it can't do are sing and dance.

— Sean Michael Wilson