This is a country that I love and that I believe in, but at the same time also believe that you should, as a part of this country, have the right to be able to talk very clearly about the issues that are happening, going on. Cheo Hodari Coker Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Bob Marley was always ready to deal with the politics of what was happening in the world but, at the same time, not lose sight of the fact that he’s a musician. Cheo Hodari Coker Read Quote
I’m not ashamed of comic books. You have some people that are like, ‘We’re trying to elevate comic books.’ Comic books have always told great dramatic stories. Cheo Hodari Coker Read Quote
When I was a critic, I reviewed Public Enemy’s ‘Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age’ – this is back in ’94 – and I called it a ‘Dante-esque spiral of the hip-hop hell.’ I idolized Chuck D, but I just hated that record, and I did not hold back. Chuck didn’t freeze me out. Every time I met Chuck, he always treated me with the utmost respect. Cheo Hodari Coker Read Quote
For me, I was never really obsessed with Luke Cage. My obsession was Wolverine. Cheo Hodari Coker Read Quote
For ‘Luke Cage,’ of course, I was familiar with Power Man and Iron Fist. I read the comics. That was really more stuff that you read for fun. It wasn’t that you read either of those comics for profound moments, although they have profound moments. Cheo Hodari Coker Read Quote
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. Cheo Hodari Coker Read Quote
