“I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write wh…” — Ta-Nehisi Coates

It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.

I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.

If I could have anything - you know, and this is across the board for any presidential candidate - I would have a greater acknowledgment of history in our policy and in our affairs.

We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.