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. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
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… — 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 Image
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 Image
Harlem has always been the nexus of music, politics, culture, criminal figures. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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