Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!
I want to try different genres. I think I'll still be looking at a strong female character in the center, and identity struggle and transformation.
Obviously, I can't tell the story of what it is to be a black girl, but maybe I can tell something else. Girlhood is not about what it's like to be a black girl, it's about what it's like to be a girl.
I intentionally leave adults out in my stories, not to say that they're not in charge or that they don't care, or that they're failing at what they do. Not at all. It's two things: It's a way to be true to what adolescence feels like, because, okay, your parents may be around, but you still don't want them to be around. What you go through, you go through alone, I think.
Being in a group is a way to actually to speak up, and define yourself in the comfort, and the complexity of the group.
I like to work around identification for the audience, and when there's a grown-up or a moral figure or something like that, people tend to go there.
I like the idea of a trilogy. It's cool. I like the word. When you do four, the word isn't cool - not as cool.
The first thing men notice about a woman is her eyes. Then, when her eyes aren't looking, they notice her breasts.
I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash. We're going across the field. . . . They're singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, I tell you what: These doggone white people - not a word!. . . Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.
I am new to superhero comics, though growing up I read Archie comics, religiously. I've been doing a lot of catching up, reading what's out there and it's been wonderful to see what's going on in contemporary comics.
Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.