->''"Well, I think -- uh, I -- I think being a writer that the reader knows is black... puts a lot of mainstream -- I say mainstream, I mean white -- readership on edge. I mean, white ''male'' readership on edge. They're really looking for some proof that I'm trying to... the phrase I get all the time is I'm always trying to "shove my agenda down their throat", which [[FreudWasRight seems sexually charged to me]], I don't know."''
-->-- '''Dwayne [=McDuffie=]''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u16sKK-1oLQ in an interview]]

->''"The last time I saw Dwayne in person, at SDCC, we were at a party and we aren't party people so we just sat and talked (which was good because he was eighty feet tall to me). And we joked about how I was always being asked to write SUPERMOM or FEMALE WOMAN or whatever...And he joked, but with some pain, "I'm always getting asked to do dvd commentary about Black Lightning or Black Panther, anything black. I KNOW EVERYTHING about Spider-man, and they NEVER ask me for that!" That was the last time I saw him, and it hit me much later, when he passed (it still hurts even to type his NAME), that that meant he was still being put in a box up until the end of his life. All his accomplishments, all his gifts. He should have been WRITING those movies.''"
-->-- '''Creator/GailSimone'''
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