Adélékè Adée ̣̀ko ̣T he epigraphic function of the following quotes is to acknowledge the aesthetic and sociopolitical currents navigated by Ryan Coogler's Black Panther (2018), the subject of the following cluster of papers. The first is excerpted from an interview with Haile Gerima, the famous filmmaker. Turner: What advice would you give the Black film student wanting to pursue a career? Gerima: Be confident not to be a duplicate clone of somebody but to know that you are a voice. To say, "I want to make a film to free Black people." That is an offensive proposition. Black people do not need that: Black people need storytellers … (982). 1 The second quote reformats words from an interview-based article: Massaquoi: Were you serious when you proposed to send armed guerrillas into Mississippi to protect civil rights workers? Malcolm X: Dead serious. We will not only send them to Mississippi, but to any place where Black people's lives are threatened by White bigots (39).
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