Quotes About Equality

I want to give black kids a new superhero.

There are now superhero movies fronted by women, and I think directors generally are moving away from that stereotypical woman's role that is just about being flirted with by a man before falling into his arms.

I would love to see an Asian American superhero.

I hope in my lifetime we will get to see an Indian superhero for sure.

Just because there's one Asian American superhero in the MCU, it does not by any means imply that our fight is finished right there.

For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the forces of history or superheroes who acquire mythic status not just because of their deeds but because of their scarcity.

These superhero movies are starting to give more love to not only black characters but also to more female characters, which is necessary because you have boys and girls of all colors who are looking at these superheroes saying, 'I want to be that. I want to look like that. Show me somebody that I can automatically connect with.'

It's important to for your kids to see themselves in their superheroes. Really, it's important for all of us.

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.

It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic.

I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly.

I'm not that interested in female superheroes.

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

Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.

Ultimately, so many things come down to money, but particularly when it comes to superheroes - people really thought that only men loved action movies and only men would go see a superhero movie.

When I was growing up, all these superheroes were white. On some level, you put that out of your mind... but as you get older, you realize it's a very one-sided affair. So I'm very glad to see that these movies are becoming more diversified.

I think one of the problems that comics has in dealing with superheroines is that they try to hard to make them superheroes. All they're doing is the same thing that men do. Just the idea that they're no different than men, except in how they look, always seemed a bit off to me.

We don't have a lot of black superheroes.

I just hope that when black people look at me, they don't see someone superhuman. They see themselves.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

If we are allowed to do experiments on monkeys because we are superior to them in a certain way, then someone who is superior to me is allowed to do experiments on me.

There is no such thing as Russian fascism. You won't find a single Russian who considers Russians to be a superior race and who advocate expulsion of aliens.

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.