Cheo Hodari Coker Quotes

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Cheo Hodari Coker

Profession : Journalist

Birth : December 12, 1972

Fatherhood is something that is personal to me because I didn't grow up around my father.

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It's much easier to talk about racism when you're able to use mutants as a metaphor. People would much rather talk about Charles Xavier and Magneto than they would about Martin Luther King or Malcolm X.

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

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The first time that I met B.I.G. was in 1994, summer of '94 - I believe it was August. I think it was right after 'Ready to Die' came out.

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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.

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In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America.

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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.

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Black women are the most passionate commentators, and even as black female geeks and nerds, they are rarely acknowledged.

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Alfre Woodard is a powerhouse, master actor, but she's also someone that you want to interact with, someone that you want to talk to.

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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.

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I can't turn hip-hop off, just like I can't turn comic books off. It blends into everything for me.

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If you're a black person in America, it's really hard to avoid being black. And what I mean is that the reality of your cultural history, regardless of whether or not you talk about it, it's there.

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

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Spike Lee is one of my biggest influences. What I love about Spike, other than he's just a fun guy to hang around, is that Spike is fearless. As much as people talk about him being politically outspoken, let's not forget that he's one of the best screenwriters, ever, in addition to being a visual master.

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If a superhero is a community superhero, then is he going to protect his community by controlling everything? If he decides to control crime, does that make him a crime boss? Does that make him a criminal?

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With 'Luke Cage,' we all, as a collective wanted to tell the truest story that we could but, at the same time, also be very true to the comic book genre.

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I really think that Steven Caple, Jr. is going to be a great addition to the 'Rocky' director pantheon.

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

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People underestimate hip-hop the way they have sometimes underestimated comic books.

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When I was a journalist, I didn't care how many people talked to Ice Cube before I talked Ice Cube. I just knew that when I talked to Ice Cube, it was going to be different than what anybody else had done, and it was the same with any group.

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