Black Panther (film)

"[angered at why T'Chaka abandoned N'Jobu's son in the US] YOU WERE WRONG! ALL OF YOU WERE WRONG! To turn your backs on the rest of the world! We let the fear of our discovery stop us from doing what is right. No more! I cannot stay here with you. I cannot rest while he sits on the throne. He is a monster of our own making. I must take the mantle back. I must! I must right these wrongs."

"[addressing the UN in Austria] My name is King T'Challa, son of King T'Chaka. I am the sovereign ruler of the nation of Wakanda. And for the first time in our history, we will be sharing our knowledge and resources with the outside world. Wakanda will no longer watch from the shadows. We cannot. We must not. We will work to be an example of how we, as brothers and sisters on this Earth, should treat each other. Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth. More connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis, the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe."

"I lived my entire life waiting for this moment. I trained, I lied, I killed just to get here, I killed in America, Afghanistan, Iraq. I took life from my own brothers and sisters right here on this continent, and all this death, just so I could kill you."

"[Last words] Why? So you can just lock me up? Nah. Just bury me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped from the ships, 'Cause they knew death was better than bondage."

"A man who has not prepared his children for his own death has failed as a father. Have I ever failed you?"

"Long live the king."

"Hero. Legend. King."

"A king will rise."

"The Avengers have a new king."

"All Hail the King."

"Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa / Black Panther"

"Michael B. Jordan as N'Jadaka / Erik "Killmonger" Stevens"

"Lupita Nyong'o as Nakia"

"Danai Gurira as Okoye"

"Martin Freeman as Everett K. Ross"

"Daniel Kaluuya as W'Kabi"

"Letitia Wright as Shuri"

"Winston Duke as M'Baku"

"Angela Bassett as Ramonda"

"Forest Whitaker as Zuri"

"Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaue"

"Stan Lee as himself"

"John Kani as T'Chaka"

"Sterling K. Brown as N'Jobu"

"Florence Kasumba as Ayo"

"Sydelle Noel as Xoliswa"

"Nabiyah Be as Linda"

"Isaach de Bankolé as River Tribe Elder"

"Connie Chiume as Mining Tribe Elder"

"Dorothy Steel as Merchant Tribe Elder"

"Danny Sapani as M'Kathu"

"Francesca Faridany as the British Museum Director"

"Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes (Uncredited)"

"We are already limited in the sense that given that type of power, that type of stage that he had, and especially in that industry. You don’t see many black male and female actors being able to put on that stage. For him to be as transcendent as he was. But then you add on the fact that growing up as a black kid, you had superheroes that you looked up to, but they weren’t black. You had Batman, you had Superman, you had Spider Man, and so on and so on. And for Ryan Coogler and for that cast, and for him himself to be able to make Black Panther, even though we knew it was like a fictional story, it actually felt real. It actually felt like we finally had our Black superhero and nobody can touch us. (Speaking about Chadwick Boseman and Black Panther)"

"I don’t even know if I can even—as you know, Amy, I don’t even know if it can even be described in words what Black Panther meant, what T’Challa meant, what many of those incredible characters meant, what Wakanda meant, what Wakanda still means to black people. And particularly those of us who are really striving to be antiracist, those of us who are knowledgeable about precolonial West African empires, those of us who know that the reason why there is so much poverty, for instance, in Africa is not because there’s something wrong with African people. That if not for colonialism, if not for the slave trade, there may be a Wakanda. And I think that black people I think in the United States and all over the world, for them to see themselves in greatness and in excellence, for them to see themselves affirmed, I think was just incredible... And like other black people who went to see the film and just as nonblack people, it gave me the ability to really step outside of myself, step outside of my world and imagine what’s possible. And there is nothing more radical and critical to transforming the world than a radical imagination. Of thinking about what is possible. I think Black Panther gave that to so many people."

"As a father, as a girl dad, the portrayal of women in Black Panther is almost certainly what I admired the most, from the chief technology officer to even the baddest person on the film, who to me was the general, who was my favorite character and certainly my wife’s favorite character. But then also, I just want to again emphasize that this is possible. We currently have a tech industry where women and particularly women of color are far and away underrepresented or imagine that it’s not their place or imagine that they don’t have the intellectual capacity. And these are all sexist and racist lies. And women, particularly women of color, can be the chief technology officer of the baddest place, I should say the most technologically advanced sort of companies or places on earth. That’s possible, if we can create that type of sort of society."

"It was the honor of his career to bring King T’Challa to life in Black Panther.” Black Panther is one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, earning more than $1.3 billion around the world. It has been called a defining moment for black America, as the first superhero movie with a majority black cast and an African lead character."