I never like to do storytelling where everything is just copacetic right after that episode. Salim Akil Read Quote
It doesn’t make sense to constantly talk about the lack of diversity in Hollywood. We all know it’s there. My wife and I just want to change that conversation with our work. Salim Akil Read Quote
America has a strange relationship with its racial memory. Death has always been a constant companion of black people. Salim Akil Read Quote
I grew up, I had three uncles and… I loved Uncle Donald because he gave me dating advice, and I was, like, 5. But the other thing that I found fascinating about my Uncle Donald is he dressed up like a woman. And so I grew up around all of these men who dressed like women, so when I hear that, I don’t hear a cause. I hear my family. Salim Akil Read Quote
Every time I get an opportunity to do what I love to do, it’s huge. It never gets old. Salim Akil Read Quote
In popular culture, there is this notion that African-American men and women can’t get together, and we’re having these issues. I think it’s an American problem because I know a lot of white women and men who are having just as many issues trying to find ‘that person’ as anyone. Salim Akil Read Quote
What I saw in Black Lightning, Jefferson Pierce, even the villains, are aspects of myself. Salim Akil Read Quote
