City Quote by Nafessa Williams

In my entire life, I'd wondered why there were no superheroes out there that looked like me.

— Simu Liu

I created the first black superhero who was not a gangbanger or an African chief but was rather a college graduate and a professional,…

— Neal Adams

I don't think I resemble a superhero at all, really. I don't think people would really imagine me to be a superhero. I certainly…

— Charlie Cox

I never imagined myself playing a superhero because I don't see myself the way superheroes have been portrayed or shown to me my entire…

— Krysten Ritter

When I first dropped into L.A., I wanted to be a superhero!

— Derek Theler

I loved Spider-Man, Superman, Batman, but I was always keenly aware that people who looked like me could not look like that.

— Simu Liu

I used to be a superhero; no one could touch me, not even myself. You are like a phone booth I somehow stumbled into,…

— Ani DiFranco

I was born a comic.

— Paul Mooney

We played a show and dressed up as super heroes. I was Superman.

— Oliver Sykes

I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.

— Anita Loos

Superheroes in New York, Give me a break!

— Stan Lee