Cheo Hodari Coker

In reality, black women, women of color, are powerful, bold, dynamic, and self-assured, so there's no reason their TV counterparts shouldn't be as such.

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

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

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

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

I finally achieved my dream by being a TV showrunner.

The thing about being black in a mostly white industry, particularly as a black male, is you can't lose your temper in the same way. Essentially, you are an angry black man losing his temper in a way that's unprofessional, as opposed to an industry that has protected unprofessional white males in perpetua.

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.

Muhammed Ali is my favorite boxer, and the reason that I love Ali is because he's not undefeated. It's because of the fact that he risked it all at times and lost - but then came back.

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.

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

Police officers see everything, and they experience everything, and they don't always act correctly.