Movies obviously had a substantial impact on my life. I was
fortunate enough to grow up and see people who looked like me doing fantastic,
incredible, even relatively normal and mundane things on screen. Looking back
on it, at the films that spoke to me—Goonies, Stand
by Me, Red Dawn, and countless others—almost
everything I watched showed me a version of myself. I know what a presence that
had, I know how much that meant, personally, and I know that wasn’t the case
for everyone. But a lot of people, young people especially, are going to find a
similar sensation, to feel a similar weight, when they watch Black Panther.
