“Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice of the people. If anything, that might be the strongest similarity between hip-hop and comic books, with super heroes, like many rappers, fighting to make a change.” PeopleIfsBookMightGuyCultureFightingVoiceStepsStageHeroFoundationHip HopComicHipsHopsStrongestRapperComic BookMaking ChangesSimilarityStep UpMicsSuper Hero Author:Ali Shaheed Muhammad
“Just like in the art museum, and notions of beauty and pleasure, if the hero is always a white guy with a squared jaw or pretty woman with big breasts, then kids start thinking that's how it's supposed to be. Part of the problem was that black comic book artists were making super heroes with the same pattern as the white super heroes. When you read a lot of those comics, the black super heroes don't seem to have anything to do.” IfsThinkingArtBookProblemBigsSeemsKidsArtistGuyBlackWhitePleasureHeroNotionPatternsComicSupposed To BeBreastsMuseumsComic BookWhite GuysPretty WomanSuper HeroBig Breast Author:Kerry James Marshall
“I remember when Langston Hughes used to write a column in black newspapers around this character Jesse B. Semple. He always used that as a voice, sometimes in comic ways, of having everyday people's voice come through this common folk hero, who was an ordinary working guy. He would talk about anything from police brutality to the Korean War. Those kinds of expression and identification are no longer prevalent in our popular culture.” PeopleWayWritingKindWarSometimesCharacterRememberUsedGuyCultureBlackVoiceCommonExpressionHeroOrdinaryPoliceEverydayFolksNewspapersComicRemember WhenPolice BrutalityBrutalityColumnsKoreanIdentificationPopular CultureKorean WarCommon Folk Author:Danny Glover
“Honestly, when you think of any great action hero or any great hero out there or great character actor, you kind of transcend the character. You just don't love the character, you love the guy. In any of the great action stars, you see the guy doing the work.” ThinkingKindCharacterActionGuyActorsStarsHeroHonestlyGreat CharacterCharacter ActorsAction HeroesGreat Hero Author:Chad Stahelski
“I grew during segregation in an all-black segregated neighborhood with segregated schools, etcetera. I was raised by a great father, my hero, who I much admired. So, I never really had anxiety in the way that someone like Obama would have. When he walks down the street alone, since no one knows who his mother is, they're just going to see him as a black guy.” KnowsWaySchoolMotherGuyFatherBlackWalksStreetsGrewHeroAnxietyRaisedNeighborhoodSegregationMy HeroGreat FatherAll BlackBlack GuysEtcetera Author:Shelby Steele
“My hero is a guy named Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt used to say, walk softly, talk softly but carry a big stick.” BigsUsedGuyWalksHeroSticksMy HeroTeddy Author:John McCain
“Benny Carter came up to me and said to me, "You know, in the whole history of the alto, I think Phil is the guy we should all be emulating." The king! So look, I'm so blessed that my first hero took me in.” ThinkingKnowsShouldFirstsLooksSaidWholeGuyKingsHeroBlessedCarter Author:Jon Gordon
“Barry White is my musical hero. He was the guy who you danced to in the club and then when you took your lady home to the bedroom, you listened to him there, too! That's who I always wanted to be - the guy who was always there.” HomeGuyHeroMusicalBedroom Author:Mayer Hawthorne
“Miles Davis, my one and only real hero of my life. I met him [because] every time I had a movie interview, I would shift the conversation to jazz. Miles, when I finally met him, he knew he had a sucker walking in the door. Because his people told him, “This guy plays the trumpet and every freakin’ interview he has ever given, he’s talked about you.”” PeopleRealGuyHeroWalkingJazzSucker Author:Peter Weller
“I think most actors probably enjoy playing the bad guy. I think it's the fact that most of the time, heroes aren't written with enough interesting qualities or flaws, and that leads to the bad guys being almost the runaway train, as far as being more interesting for the audience to watch.” ThinkingEnoughGuyEnjoyInterestingQualityAudienceHeroTrainFlawsRunaway Author:Chris Demetral
“I've played people that are on the line of evil and good, but that's life. We are always playing with the good and the bad. I see them as people. I don't see them as caricatures. I try to not make them caricatures. Maybe I fail, but I try to see what' behind them. Would I play the hero? A superhero? I don't think so. But, I play good guys. There are some there, but you have to look.” PeopleThinkingTryingGuyEvilFailingHeroSuperheroGood Guy Author:Javier Bardem
“Pretty much all comic-book people, like all Hollywood people, for the most part, are pretty liberal. I think especially UK writers. Alan Moore is probably the most radical guy you'll ever meet. I grew up loving those guys, so my heroes, as a kid, were radical cartoonists, essentially. I couldn't help but - I grew up in a left-wing household. But I do think it's fun, writing right-wing characters. I've found it interesting, just as a writer, to get inside their heads and make them likeable.” PeopleThinkingWritingCharacterHelpingKidsGuyFunInterestingHeroRadicalMy HeroCartoonistLikeable Author:Mark Millar
“Contrary to popular belief, maybe, I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people. And I'm not really super impressed even if you're my hero; I can just rap with you and we can hang. I'm not gonna like sit there and bite my lip and ask questions about certain songs - okay I might do that once or twice. But it's just, like, two people hanging out.” PeopleGuySongBeliefHeroOkayMeetingsRapFriendlyHanging OutMy HeroContrary To Popular Belief Author:Bradford Cox
“We hate our heroes, you know. That's one of the great things about this whole deconstruction thing - there's no more heroes. It's always been there, you just look at people's reactions, and when the good guys are skunks, those parts stick with us.” GuyHateHeroGreat ThingsGood Guy Author:Carey Mercer
“You look at the Russian side: They're defending their territory from the beginning. They move west to destroy the Nazis. And they take out the guts of the German war machine per Winston Churchill, who said that they won the war. From the beginning, we were hostile to the guys who had saved how many American lives by their repulsion of the Nazis? I think the Americans lost 400,000 in the whole war. And the Americans knew it at the time. They gave Joseph Stalin credit. He was the man of the year, cover of Life magazine in 1943; he was a hero.” ThinkingMenWarMovingGuyHe ManHeroGutsLive ByNazi Author:Oliver Stone
“I know some of these guys who are in that stalkerazzi world, and you really have to separate them from the paparazzi in our industry. This is another breed. And they have their heroes who got the big scandalous shot, and which just promotes more of that.” KnowsWorldBigsGuyIndustryHeroShotsPaparazziScandalous Author:Brad Pitt
“I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.” StoriesGuyFightingEvilBlackWhiteHeroClassicVersusBad GuysGood Guy Author:Simon Sinek
“My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.” KnowsInspirationalMotivationalGuySimpleAnswersKnow HowRocksCryHeroDefenseTerrifiedRock And RollCocky Author:John Lennon
“Here’s the life lesson I’ve learned, Fifi: Some people are born to play the hero, and some are born to play the bad guy. Fighting your destiny only makes life harder than it needs to be. Besides, people remember the villain long after they’ve forgotten the hero.” PeopleNeedsLongPlayRememberGuyFightingBornDestinyHeroLessonsHarderForgottenI've LearnedVillainLife LessonBad GuysYour Destiny Book:Breathing Room Source: Breathing Room
“By the way, you guys seriously screwed up just now. (Nero) We know. (They said in unison.) Yeah, well, what you don’t know is how grateful your girl is to you. I just thought you should know that you guys are a hero to her…and she thinks we’re all idiots. (Nero)” ThinkingKnowsWayShouldWellsSaidGuyGirlHeroYeahGratefulIdiotThey SaidScrewed UpUnisonNero Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“Sometimes things would be so much simpler if you could just pull out your gun and shoot the bad guy. Reason number seventeen why Indiana Jones is my hero.” IfsSometimesReasonWould BeGuyNumbersHeroGunBad GuysMy HeroSeventeenIndiana Author:Jennifer Rardin
“You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I've learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.” WantYearsBelieveSometimesPastGuyEvilBlackCan DoSimpleWhiteHeroSurpriseAwfulI've LearnedGood And EvilHeroicVillainBlack And WhiteBad GuysGood Guy Book:The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in the future. So guys like... William Bradford and William Wallace, the Bravehearts, the Patriots, the Pilgrims. There are so many of those people throughout history... whose stories have just never been told.” PeopleGivingIdeasStoriesInspirationTodayMovingGuyHeroHistoricalMoving ForwardLooking BackPatriotBraveheartPilgrimBradford Author:Kirk Cameron
“-“Say no more,” Leif interrupted. “I understand. I will simply have to kill them all myself.” -"There he goes again. I’m telling you, Danny Elfman would love to get hold of those lines." -"Not John Williams?" -"If you’ve got some hopelessly overmatched heroes fighting evil and some Imperial types marching, John Williams is your guy. You need a song to make people reach for a box of Kleenex, talk to Randy Newman. But if you want creepy atmospherics and spine-shivering chords to back up your casual death threats, you gotta bring in Danny Elfman.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsGuySongFightingEvilLinesTypeHeroThreatBoxesChordsCasualCreepySpineInterruptedRandyNewmanFighting EvilKleenex Author:Kevin Hearne