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Cheo Hodari Coker Quotes

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.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 12, 1972

Topics

Women Color Black Reality Powerful

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

Jeff Ross

Time You Mouth Back Timing Kid

My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours after the game.

Michael Irvin

Day Monday People Game New Through

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

Michael Caine

American Award House Rules Playing

Get off your horse and drink your milk.

John Wayne

Horse Milk Drink Get Off Your

When I was reporting crime... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart.

John Sandford

Evil Kind Crime Never Falling Order

It's just as easy to buy a $12,000 watch in East Hampton as it is to pick up a carton of milk, and new homeowners are so impatient that they landscape their front lawns with 'mature gardens' of full-grown trees.

Steven Gaines

Trees Landscape Easy New Milk Up

That's part of what I remember about seeing the movies that influenced me: the experience of watching them with a crowd and how they react to something.

Travis Beacham

Experience Me Remember Seeing Movies

Once, every four years, you get an opportunity to compete in the Olympics. You have these six dives that decide whether you're an Olympic medallist or not, which is quite intense.

Tom Daley

Opportunity You Years Decide Compete

Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that.

Mary Steenburgen

People Early Dark Dark Side Side

Almost never does a candidate with high negatives have much of a coattail effect.

Mitch McConnell

Never High Almost Candidate Effect

While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.

Mo Rocca

Language Friends Conversation Risk

With 'Sons of Anarchy,' I had to leave a couple of times - I got another show, and I had a baby - so they sent me off to rehab. If I hadn't left, they probably would've killed me off by now.

Drea De Matteo

Me Baby Now Leave Anarchy Left