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" When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into. "
G. Willow Wilson
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" It's patently impossible for a Muslim character to represent 'all Muslims.' "
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" The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings. "
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" We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you. "
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" The Qur'an is God's property, not mine. "
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" When I need guidance or just to kvetch or to bounce ideas off of people, I go to Gail Simone, who is very much kind of the den mother of all of us who are working comics. "
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" In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country. "
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" Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty. "
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" Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in. "
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" The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago. "
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" I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators. "
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" I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish. "
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" I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots. "
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" I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process. "
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" The 'Ms. Marvel' mantle has passed to 'Kamala Khan,' a high school student from Jersey City who struggles to reconcile being an American teenager with the conservative customs of her Pakistani Muslim family. "
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" I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque. "
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" I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white. "
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" If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy. "
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" I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed. "
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" When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful. "
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See
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" The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10. "
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" I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions. "
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" In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art. "
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" 'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler. "
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" I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media. "
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" The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent. "
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" I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth. "
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" In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume. "
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" Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism. "
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" Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more. "
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" Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork. "
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