Cheo Hodari Coker Quotes

I'm not ashamed of comic books. You have some people that are like, 'We're trying to elevate comic books.' Comic books have always told great dramatic stories.
I'm not going to be one of those people who says, 'I'm a showrunner; I'm not a black showrunner.' I'm black when I go to sleep. I'm black when I wake up, period. It doesn't affect my perspective on everything, but at the same time, it's who I am, and I'm proud of it.
If a superhero is a community superhero, then is he going to protect his community by controlling everything? If he decides to control crime, does that make him a crime boss? Does that make him a criminal?
If there's one thing that I've learned from both Spike Lee and Tarantino, it's that you can wear your influences on your sleeve but at the same time invoke new energy and new flavor.
If you're a black person in America, it's really hard to avoid being black. And what I mean is that the reality of your cultural history, regardless of whether or not you talk about it, it's there.
In reality, black women, women of color, are powerful, bold, dynamic, and self-assured, so there's no reason their TV counterparts shouldn't be as such.
In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America.
It's better to write a pilot rather than write a spec show. In some cases, you have to do both, but more often, writing a pilot and having an original voice is more important.
It's important to for your kids to see themselves in their superheroes. Really, it's important for all of us.
It's much easier to talk about racism when you're able to use mutants as a metaphor. People would much rather talk about Charles Xavier and Magneto than they would about Martin Luther King or Malcolm X.
Let's face it: there aren't a lot of black superheroes. So, in dealing with a black superhero, you're going to deal with ugly history and the beauty of history.
Most superheroes, when you look at origin stories - before they invent their costume, they just go with what's around.
Muhammed Ali is my favorite boxer, and the reason that I love Ali is because he's not undefeated. It's because of the fact that he risked it all at times and lost - but then came back.
My era was '90s Carhartt-and-Timberlands hip-hop. That's my rock n' roll.
My grandfather was a Tuskegee Airman. He flew with the 100th Fighter Squadron.
My mom and dad met at U. Conn., and their lives couldn't have been more different in terms of their upbringing.
My private joke about 'Luke Cage' is that it's a bulletproof version of 'Lemonade,' and that, essentially, it's a concept album that has a video component.
Netflix likes critical attention, and they like their analytics.
One of my biggest influences, of course, is David Simon and his work on 'The Wire.'
One of my favorite comic books of all-time is the graphic novel 'God Loves, Man Kills.'
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