Black Panther (2016-2018) #12 Quotes

“I should never have left you. I was caught between fealty to my world and fealty to my blood. I chose wrong. I was a king. I held the knife. I acted as a king should. But I did not act as family should.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Black Panther (2016-2018) #12

“But perhaps the question is not whether you can stand with the king... but whether your king can stand with you.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Black Panther (2016-2018) #12

“We are all so injured, daughter-- all of us. Even him-- perhaps especially him. This name-- haramu-fal-- was made to mock him. But perhaps it mocks us all. Perhaps it speaks to all of our losses.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Black Panther (2016-2018) #12

“He has lost best friend to treachery, a wife to allegiances... an uncle to betrayal, still more friends to sorcery... He kept up the regal mask. But he could not always do it. No one can. I remember my beloved... I remember him, weeping.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Black Panther (2016-2018) #12

“Hmm... 'our' country? I have not spoken in this manner in some years. But Wakanda is my home. Wakanda is our home.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Black Panther (2016-2018) #12