America Quote by Mike Colter

The majority of the DC and Marvel comic lines are white male characters, and the minute you make Thor a woman or Captain America…

— Wyatt Cenac

There is an appetite for things that are different and a story with Black characters that's going to appeal to a lot of people.

— Cord Jefferson

A black character is much more than just a black character; he's a character, period. So show the world as it is. Even with…

— Raoul Peck

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

— Reginald Hudlin

Black storytelling can be about anything, absolutely anything, and within that it can be as enriching, as complex, beautiful, ugly as anything else. We…

— Paterson Joseph

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

— James Earl Jones

If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race…

— Dwayne McDuffie

There's this responsibility you feel to present a certain thing that kind of respectability politics. I think that became the only accepted way of…

— Rick Famuyiwa

It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted towards the niche…

— Amandla Stenberg

I get the feeling that audiences have become mature and they understand that not every character is in black or white. There can be…

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

I don't understand how our story can be so bonkers, but 'Captain Marvel' isn't. A lot of the ideas in 'The OA' that seem…

— Zal Batmanglij

We have to support everyone so their stories don't get 'invisibilized.' We don't necessarily have to repopulate the next Marvel movie with people of…

— Tamlyn Tomita