Cheo Hodari Coker Quotes

Aladdin is a good soul. He is very selfless and usually does things for other people, but as he falls in love, he loses himself a little bit and starts to become someone that he is not. But he is a person with good intentions and has good people surrounding him who lead him back to where he is supposed to be.

The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.

The mythic journey is always about selflessness.

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

I came to love, I came into my own.

We wanted to talk about death in the DC Universe, and how some people go to get a pass and come back, and some people didn't. That opened up a whole other topic about legacy. We wanted to talk about what was required to be a hero, what were the elements of true heroism?

What's a hero if not for its journey.

People who want to remember me as Cat Stevens - welcome. Those who want me as Yusuf, you're here.

I like stories about people who have to go into darkness for a good reason and then have to figure out how to deal with the darkness that seeps into their souls.

For better and for worse, I feel like sorrow and grief are really transformative personal experiences for me, and I question what I would be had I decided to take a different path and not embrace that kind of pain.

I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.

Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things were different.

I love heroes that really go through ordeals, and they come out the other end completely changed.

Victor Stone's story is one of acceptance - of self and others. Also, accepting his father for the person he once was, absent from his life until he turned him into Cyborg. And acceptance of oneself in that he is both Cyborg and Victor Stone simultaneously.

I enjoy flawed heroes that actually struggle, you know, with their own sort of path and are not really aware that they reach that level of being a hero.

There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

Love is a hero’s journey, and the hero’s journey is a noble but difficult path.

Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.