Cheo Hodari Coker Quotes

The movement for black lives isn't just about black people. Black liberation has never just been about black people. It's been about a fight for our humanity, for our dignity.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

I write about spirituality not so we get strong from within and achieve some state of nirvana and then distance ourselves from the real world. I write about it so we can feel empowered to doing the critical work that this generation of black women are charged with doing.

I like to think my work is furthering black culture by educating and empowering black people.

When we say that black lives matter, it's not because others don't: it's simply because we must affirm that we are worthy of existing without fear, when so many things tell us we are not.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.

If a Black American may not enter this theater, this black Egyptian will not enter.

The world has made being black a crime .... I hope to make it a virtue.

I cannot escape the conscientious discharge of my duty towards a class of American citizens, whose only crime consists of their color.

If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?

Black Power is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.

We are born with freedom and hope, but often that's dashed because of our color. But in school, I'd already been taught that no one could tell me that you can't do something because you're black.

My job is to be the constructive awakener of the black masses of the world so them know themself and others know what black people suppose to be and where.

Like books and black lives, albums still matter.

I'm very into film and strengthening what it means to be a rapper and to be a black dude from Chicago.

Black people come in so many different bodies, genders, and sexualities, so it's important that we're conscious of that so we can fight for a world that embraces and uplifts black people of every kind. Our voices are powerful and have the ability to make change.

Our Luke Cage is a black hero, not a hero who happens to be black.