As long as black people preserve their culture in Harlem, Harlem will always be alive. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
People underestimate hip-hop the way they have sometimes underestimated comic books. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
It's much easier to talk about racism when you're able to use mutants as a metaphor. People would much rather talk about… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
I'm not ashamed of comic books. You have some people that are like, 'We're trying to elevate comic books.' Comic books have… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
You have to tell a super story that has some fantastical element, but the human element is what's going to keep people… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
The Academy Awards for people in Hollywood is like the Super Bowl, the presidential inauguration and winning the NBA championship rolled up… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston,… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
When I was a journalist, I didn't care how many people talked to Ice Cube before I talked Ice Cube. I just… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
75%-90% of the murders that occur in black and Latino communities are solvable. Everybody knows who did it or somebody knows. The… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
I know now it's a hashtag and people have various feelings about it, but really if you look at all black art,… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
My mom and dad met at U. Conn., and their lives couldn't have been more different in terms of their upbringing. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share
I mean, we should only be talking about the merits of film ["Moonlight"] because one of the great things about the visual language is… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share
Harlem has always been the nexus of music, politics, culture, criminal figures. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share
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… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share
I always respected Luke Cage and thought that he was interesting, and I really liked what Brian Michael Bendis did in his update of… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share
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,… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share
I wanted Season 2 of Luke Cage to be Ice Cube's 'Death Certificate,' or Fugees' 'The Score,' or Public Enemy's 'It Takes a Nation… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share
I wanted Luke Cage to very much be an African American superhero rather than a superhero that happens to be black. I felt it… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share
The thing that all police officers decide when they wake up in the morning is that they're going home. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share
It's important to for your kids to see themselves in their superheroes. Really, it's important for all of us. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share
The Caribbean is such a rich place, and Jamaica, personally, is one of my favorite places in the world. I've been lucky to, on… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share
75%-90% of the murders that occur in black and Latino communities are solvable. Everybody knows who did it or somebody knows. The reason nobody… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share
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… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share
Fatherhood is something that is personal to me because I didn't grow up around my father. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share
My era was '90s Carhartt-and-Timberlands hip-hop. That's my rock n' roll. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share
