Binary Quote by Margot Lee Shetterly

Let's face it: there aren't a lot of black superheroes. So, in dealing with a black superhero, you're going to deal with ugly history…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

When you're a black superhero you can't erase the notion that you're black.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

For black people in the western hemisphere, if you can't generate a mythology that creates models of heroism and power out of the mythology…

— Kerry James Marshall

Black people are often praised as heroes for saving a country that treats us like third-class citizens, yet when it comes to the fame,…

— Jason Johnson

To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend.

— Lena Waithe

While not always pretty or comfortable to discuss, Black history shines a light on the everlasting resilience of patriots in the Black community who…

— Byron Donalds

There's a lot of black history - my history - that I don't know about.

— Alison Hammond

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once…

— Jesse Jackson

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

— Thomas Sowell

I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of…

— Oprah Winfrey

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,

— Langston Hughes