Cheo Hodari Coker Quotes

The reason I keep making so many musical metaphors with 'Luke Cage' is that I don't view it as much a television show as I do a concept album with dialogue.
The reason that Shaft has a dominant theme song is because James Bond has a dominant theme song.
The thing about being black in a mostly white industry, particularly as a black male, is you can't lose your temper in the same way. Essentially, you are an angry black man losing his temper in a way that's unprofessional, as opposed to an industry that has protected unprofessional white males in perpetua.
The thing about Luke Cage that makes him different is - on the surface is he's a hero for hire; Luke Cage wants to get paid. Luke Cage in the comic books is like, 'I'm doing this stuff. It's all well and good, but I gotta make a dollar.'
The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's so much about our whole legacy that was stolen and that we lost in the Transatlantic slave trade that we'll never find out.
The thing that all police officers decide when they wake up in the morning is that they're going home.
The thing that was fascinating and frustrating about Pac was that he clearly knew better than to go down the gangster road that he went down. Pac knew - and he was right - that thug energy could be redirected into fearless positivity.
There aren't a lot of African-American superheroes. I've been reading comics since I was eight or nine years old. Luke Cage stood out.
This is a country that I love and that I believe in, but at the same time also believe that you should, as a part of this country, have the right to be able to talk very clearly about the issues that are happening, going on.
To me, Harlem is one of the most important places on the earth, particularly when it comes to talking about African Americans.
What Peter Jackson proved with 'Lord Of The Rings' movies is that you could make various changes, and you could pull things around, but as long as it was in the spirit of the storytelling, and because he made The Shire so real, the fans forgave him for the changes.
When I was a critic, I reviewed Public Enemy's 'Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age' - this is back in '94 - and I called it a 'Dante-esque spiral of the hip-hop hell.' I idolized Chuck D, but I just hated that record, and I did not hold back. Chuck didn't freeze me out. Every time I met Chuck, he always treated me with the utmost respect.
When I was a journalist, I didn't care how many people talked to Ice Cube before I talked Ice Cube. I just knew that when I talked to Ice Cube, it was going to be different than what anybody else had done, and it was the same with any group.
When you scratch the soul of hip-hop, you find R&B and funk but also reggae.
When you're a black superhero, you can't erase the notion that you're black. If you're black, living in the community, and you want to change things, there are going to be things that happen. That's true of anybody. I mean, you could use celebrity as a similar metaphor.
When you're dealing with African Americans, family is everything. Because we spend so much time talking about how one treats one's family. Telling a black person that you haven't talked to your mother in a week is probably different than it is with other races because people will look at you different.
When you're writing about cops from the perspective of cops, that level of sarcasm about their job and how they treat people will color the writing to a certain extent.
With 'Luke Cage,' we all, as a collective wanted to tell the truest story that we could but, at the same time, also be very true to the comic book genre.
You can't really say that Bushmaster or Mariah Dillard is a bigger bad, because they both do some pretty heinous things.
You have to tell a super story that has some fantastical element, but the human element is what's going to keep people watching.
«first‹previous12345
Total Records : 100

Related Books

Author Profile

Votes :
Rating :
AuthorName
Cheo Hodari Coker
Profession
Journalist
BirthDate
12 December, 1972
View Profile

Share to your friends..

Related Author

A. J. Jacobs A. J. Liebling Aaron Brown Aaron Klein Adam Clymer Adam Cohen Adam Davidson Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Agnes Smedley Ainsley Earhardt Alan Colmes Alexander Chase Alexandra Petri Alexandra Robbins Alice Stone Blackwell Alistair Cooke Allan Sloan Ambrose Bierce Amy Chozick Amy Goodman
view more

Popular Topics

Attitude Death Inspirational Life Love Motivational Nature Positive