Cheo Hodari Coker

I'm a hip-hop showrunner.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Television has power.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Harlem is filled with moments of history.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

People underestimate the complexity of comic books.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I finally achieved my dream by being a TV showrunner.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

When you scratch the soul of hip-hop, you find R&B and funk but also reggae.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Some people, when they get criticism, they shy away from it.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Hip-hop is as much an attitude and perspective as it is a music form.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

For me, hip-hop has always been black superhero music.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

My era was '90s Carhartt-and-Timberlands hip-hop. That's my rock n' roll.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

'Southland' was really where I learned so much about drama.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

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

Bob Marley was always ready to deal with the politics of what was happening in the world but, at the same time,…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

That's the thing about TV: it gives you so much time to tell your story; it's comparable to comics.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

One of my favorite comic books of all-time is the graphic novel 'God Loves, Man Kills.'

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I come from hip-hop - meaning that I don't mind if you come at me. In fact, I prefer it. But I…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Even though I've got this really brawny, masculine reputation, I'm a Shondaland Thursdays kind of guy.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Most superheroes, when you look at origin stories - before they invent their costume, they just go with what's around.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

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

Muhammed Ali is my favorite boxer, and the reason that I love Ali is because he's not undefeated. It's because of the…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted,…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

When you're dealing with African Americans, family is everything. Because we spend so much time talking about how one treats one's family.…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

One of my favorite memories as a kid was when the original 'Secret Wars' came out with the debut of the black…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I just always feel that any black art should address our perpetual struggle for progress and freedom, period. There's no way around…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

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

The only thing police patrol cops - in certain situations - are expert at is spotting anomalies. When you are a black…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

What Peter Jackson proved with 'Lord Of The Rings' movies is that you could make various changes, and you could pull things…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

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

You know, "Moonlight" deserves best picture [on Oscar]. What I mean by tarnished is the moment - being able to be in…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Bushmaster was such a great adversary, and Mustafa Shakir, just the way that he embodies him in terms of the power of…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I will always get a certain thrill of watching bullets bounce off Luke Cage.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Black writers seldom get the opportunity to write superhero stories.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

One of my biggest influences, of course, is David Simon and his work on 'The Wire.'

— Cheo Hodari Coker

'Clockers' - as much as it is a very focused crime drama, it sprawls.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

My grandfather was a Tuskegee Airman. He flew with the 100th Fighter Squadron.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Netflix likes critical attention, and they like their analytics.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I don't see female characters as different or inferior to male characters.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Harlem has always been the nexus of music, politics, culture, criminal figures.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

For me, I was never really obsessed with Luke Cage. My obsession was Wolverine.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Our Luke Cage is a black hero, not a hero who happens to be black.

— Cheo Hodari Coker