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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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I know and understand the result of extreme violence in my own life, in my friends' lives, and so I know what violence really is.

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I don't think I'll ever do a show with violence where there's no consequences, 'cause I know the consequences.

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I've worked in a mortuary and seen the consequences of what guns and knives do to people.

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Jefferson Pierce is the epitome of what black men are: He loves his wife, his children, and the community.

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Black folk have been 'the other' in shows and movies and in life for quite a long time. Not from our perspective, we're not 'the other,' but from other people's perspective we have been 'the other.'

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