1960s Quote by David Harewood

Those early Cyborg comics were very politically charged, and he was very aware of being a black superhero.

— Ray Fisher

There aren't a lot of African-American superheroes. I've been reading comics since I was eight or nine years old. Luke Cage stood out.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

There were not a lot of roles for a black man like myself that were different. Then 'Top Boy' came. I read the script…

— Ashley Walters

If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.

— Reginald Hudlin

Irving Wallace wrote a bestselling novel, The Man, in the 1960s about a black man becoming president of the United States. We thought that…

— Wayne Dyer

I see 'Cyborg' as probably the most iconic African American superhero within all of the comic worlds.

— Joivan Wade

ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he…

— Michael Jackson

In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

— Verne Troyer

When I started my career, I started with black comics: Bruce Bruce, Mark Curry, Bill Bellamy. It takes all kinds of influences.

— Iliza Shlesinger

“As Ellison's black protagonist exclaimed in Invisible Man, "You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world,…

— James T. Patterson

“The six to eight black men were characterized as personal slaves until the mid-1950s, when the political climate changed and it was decided that…

— David Sedaris

“I suppose it was a mistake to sketch in a background for the movie, in which I described a likely mix of people in…

— Michael Moorcock