Stan Lee

America is made of different races and different religions, but we're all co-travelers on the spaceship Earth and must respect and help each other along the way.

It's totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race - to despise an entire nation - to vilify an entire religion.

We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.

When I was a kid, Disney was one of my gods. I just loved movies like 'Snow White' and 'Pinocchio.'

I grew up in New York City during the Depression. My earliest recollections were of my parents talking about what they would do if they didn't have the rent money. Luckily, we were never evicted. But my father was unemployed most of the time.

I always felt the 'X-Men,' in a subtle way, often touched upon the subject of racism and inequality, and I believe that subject has come up in other titles, too. But we would never pound hard on the subject, which must be handled with care and intelligence.