In comics, you have to imagine what happens. I really loved it; I loved collecting. I loved following the adventures and figuring out what was going to happen next. I was a huge X-Men fan; I was a huge Spider-Man fan, and, to large degree, I remain one. It's literature for me; it's art.

Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.

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