Black women are the most passionate commentators, and even as black female geeks and nerds, they are rarely acknowledged.

All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter. And that goes back to Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston - take your pick.

My grandfather was a Tuskegee Airman. He flew with the 100th Fighter Squadron.

Human sexuality is not always about being labeled. It's about having a human moment, an emotion.

I just always feel that any black art should address our perpetual struggle for progress and freedom, period. There's no way around it. The thing is you can never predict what the next injustice is going to be. Unfortunately, it's part of being black and conscious in America.

The reason I keep making so many musical metaphors with 'Luke Cage' is that I don't view it as much a television show as I do a concept album with dialogue.

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.

Even though I'm not Jamaican, I've always loved Jamaican culture because, to me, it's the island of magic, it's the island of politics, of resistance.

I just felt that Danny Rand within the Luke Cage universe... I just felt that he was going to be dope.