“If you're black living in the community and you want to change things, there are going to be things that happen. That's true of anybody. I mean you could use celebrity as a similar metaphor.” IfsWantMeanUseHappensBlackCommunityMetaphor Author:Cheo Hodari Coker
“If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It's basically just saying that our lives have meaning.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWorldTryingHas BeensArtBlackDealsStruggleOur LivesIdentityElementsInvisibleWho We AreIndifferentJust SayingAll BlackBlack Art Author:Cheo Hodari Coker
“I know now it's a hashtag and people have various feelings about it, but really if you look at all black art, even in hip-hop, it's all about that I exist and these are my feelings and this is what I feel about the world. It's always been an undercurrent.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldFeelsLooksArtFeelingsBlackHip HopVariousHipsHopsAll BlackBlack ArtHashtags Author:Cheo Hodari Coker
“I've just never seen a live event [like Oscar] where the emotional swings - it was just stunning.And it was interesting because, on one hand, "Moonlight" is one of these, like, generational pictures that you wanted to see win. But at the same time, if "La La Land" had won, I completely understood.” IfsHandsWantedWinningInterestingLandEventsEmotionalUnderstoodSwingsOscarsMoonlightStunning Author:Cheo Hodari Coker
