Journalist Quotes

Bushmaster was such a great adversary, and Mustafa Shakir, just the way that he embodies him in terms of the power of the voice, the stillness, and then, at the same time, when they do get after it, when he does fight, just how kinetic he was. He just brought a great dynamic and being able to explore his history in making the character Jamaican.
Even though I'm not Jamaican, I've always loved Jamaican culture because, to me, it's the island of magic, it's the island of politics, of resistance.
Even though I've got this really brawny, masculine reputation, I'm a Shondaland Thursdays kind of guy.
Even though my approach is slightly different, the Luke Cage of 'Jessica Jones' is no stranger to the Luke Cage of Marvel's 'Luke Cage.' It's really a continuation to a certain extent. It's just got a little different flavor, but it's still the same suit.
Fatherhood is something that is personal to me because I didn't grow up around my father.
For 'Luke Cage,' of course, I was familiar with Power Man and Iron Fist. I read the comics. That was really more stuff that you read for fun. It wasn't that you read either of those comics for profound moments, although they have profound moments.
For me, hip-hop has always been black superhero music.
For me, I was never really obsessed with Luke Cage. My obsession was Wolverine.
Harlem has always been the nexus of music, politics, culture, criminal figures.
Hip hop fans are obsessed, and they're geeks about hip hop. Comic book fans are also geeks, and when you can meld the two, then you open the world up to, I think, communities that will just take to each other.
Hip-hop is as much an attitude and perspective as it is a music form.
Honestly, what 'Luke Cage' is - it's a hip-hop Western. And you have Luke Cage as the sheriff of Harlem.
Human sexuality is not always about being labeled. It's about having a human moment, an emotion.
I always respected Luke Cage and thought that he was interesting, and I really liked what Brian Michael Bendis did in his update of the character in 'Alias,' the comic.
I can't turn hip-hop off, just like I can't turn comic books off. It blends into everything for me.
I come from hip-hop - meaning that I don't mind if you come at me. In fact, I prefer it. But I prefer that you come at the show with credible critique.
I don't see female characters as different or inferior to male characters.
I finally achieved my dream by being a TV showrunner.
I just always feel that any black art should address our perpetual struggle for progress and freedom, period. There's no way around it. The thing is you can never predict what the next injustice is going to be. Unfortunately, it's part of being black and conscious in America.
I just felt that Danny Rand within the Luke Cage universe... I just felt that he was going to be dope.
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