Cheo Hodari Coker Quotes

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Cheo Hodari Coker

Profession : Journalist

Birth : December 12, 1972

I just felt that Danny Rand within the Luke Cage universe... I just felt that he was going to be dope.

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Let's face it: there aren't a lot of black superheroes. So, in dealing with a black superhero, you're going to deal with ugly history and the beauty of history.

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It's better to write a pilot rather than write a spec show. In some cases, you have to do both, but more often, writing a pilot and having an original voice is more important.

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

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I think the fact that 'Black Lightning,' 'Luke Cage' and 'Black Panther' have each made noise in their own way will only lead to different superheroes and different genres.

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

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

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Really, the arc for the first season of 'Luke Cage' is 'hero.' How does one become a hero? What does one feel about being a hero? How does one live their life and eventually go through the Elizabeth Kubler-Ross stages of grief until the acceptance is, 'Fine, I'm a hero.' This is what it is.

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Black writers seldom get the opportunity to write superhero stories.

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

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People underestimate the complexity of comic books.

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All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter. And that goes back to Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston - take your pick.

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Netflix likes critical attention, and they like their analytics.

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When you're dealing with African Americans, family is everything. Because we spend so much time talking about how one treats one's family. Telling a black person that you haven't talked to your mother in a week is probably different than it is with other races because people will look at you different.

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

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

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The power that you have as a storyteller is to be able to tell stories that are at once entertaining but also never lose sight of what's going on in the real world.

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You can't really say that Bushmaster or Mariah Dillard is a bigger bad, because they both do some pretty heinous things.

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The reason that Shaft has a dominant theme song is because James Bond has a dominant theme song.

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