What surprised you the most?
The illustrations. I mean I knew they were going to be good, but they are beyond that.
Who motivates you and why?
My daughter doesn’t know this, but I do a lot because I never want to come home and have her ask for something, and I have to tell her she can’t have it, or I can’t give it to her. I want to give her the world and make it better for her so she hopefully won’t encounter some of the same experiences that I had [and] have with race.
What book(s) are you currently reading?
I’m a comic book fan, and right now, it’s about the Black comic book authors of the Black Panther, The Next Batman, Green Lantern, and, of course, Milestone.
What’s next for you?
I like that Drake song; “[We’ll] see what’s [’bout to] happen next.” I would need like a whole day to tell you, but shortly, we are releasing a database that people will search all the stories that we have captured on The Black Male Archives and Powerful Women of Color sites that tell a holistic and positive narrative about our culture.
