America Quote by Salim Akil

I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept.

— Terry Crews

When you're a black superhero, you can't erase the notion that you're black. If you're black, living in the community, and you want to…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

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

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I never saw a little African-American girl saving the world. So to be able to be that for not only myself but girls who…

— Storm Reid

What really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television.

— Adrian Younge

“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man,…

— James Baldwin

It's just surreal because I get to empower other little African-American girls around the world and say that you can be a superhero, and…

— Storm Reid

I remember growing up, people would say, 'You could be president!' Well, for a black kid looking at that, it wasn't until Obama became…

— Jimmie Allen

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

Unfortunately, in television today there are very few African-American characters who are human beings. They are typically two-dimensional stereotypes, cookie-cutter types.

— Andre Braugher

We don't have a lot of black superheroes.

— Salim Akil

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my…

— Frantz Fanon