Black Panther (2016-2018) #2 Quotes

“I was wrong. My enemy is not a beguiler, but a revealer. She brings out of us all the awful feelings that we have hidden away. And makes them manifest. So I know now that this is who I am. Might. Shame. Rage. And now they know, too.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Black Panther (2016-2018) #2

“I wish he'd told me not just of the power of kings, but of the might of the people. I wish he'd warned me that they, too, have secrets. They, too, have mysteries. They, too, possess a power of their own.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Black Panther (2016-2018) #2

“The day after I became king, S'yan offered a single piece of wisdom. 'Power lies not in what a king does, but in what his subjects believe he might do.' This was profound. For it meant that the majesty of kings lay in their mystique... not in their might.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Black Panther (2016-2018) #2

“You deserved so much more, little flower. You deserved a Wakanda that cherished you." "But this is the Wakanda we have. And while the Midnight Angels breathe, I swear to you... they shall all pay.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Black Panther (2016-2018) #2

“Thandiwe, when they come for you, do not scream. Do not plead. Do not cry, for your cries are but song to them.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Black Panther (2016-2018) #2