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What we tend to do in our shows, especially with 'Love Is_,' is to show the humanity of characters so that people can see themselves, one, and so that other cultures can see that we have more in common than we have not in common.
Salim Akil
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I always approach storytelling with the idea that the audience will get it. They understand almost better than we do, because they get to watch it from an entirely different perspective with new eyes.
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You can't protect your children from life.
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There are so many families who do not come up in a traditional household. African Americans, Latins, and, I'm sure, whites as well, but there are a lot of men missing in African American communities and in Latin communities.
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I grew up around people with a bunch of serious problems.
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I thought I was an actor until they pointed the camera at me.
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Like anyone else in television, I like to explore my life experience. And I don't think African-American artists see doing shows or art about African-Americans as something 'less than.' I think maybe the industry sometimes does. We don't get as much attention, we don't get critical acclaim and so on.
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I never saw a true representation - an iconic hero - for myself. It just got boring, reading about all these really powerful and heroic white guys.
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To me, Jefferson Pierce represented every side of me. I knew that I would be able to flesh him out.
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If I'm walking down the street or taking my kids trick-or-treating, and I see some young girls or boys who are dressed up like Black Lightning, that, to me, would be success.
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As an artist, I write and I do what I know and what creatively comes out of me, and I think that other artists should do the same thing.
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If anyone sees anything in 'Black Lightning' that seems foreign to them, then they haven't been paying attention. This is a uniquely American experience.
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