Ability Quote by Cheo Hodari Coker

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

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

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

— Cheo Hodari Coker

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

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

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

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

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

The thing that all police officers decide when they wake up in the morning is that they're going home.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

It's important to for your kids to see themselves in their superheroes. Really, it's important for all of us.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

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

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