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1 " 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 #12
2 " 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. "
3 " 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. "
4 " But perhaps the question is not whether you can stand with the king... but whether your king can stand with you. "
5 " 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. "