Spike Lee Quotes

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• It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work...
• I've got "Sometimers." Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget.
• Power is knowing your past.
• It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to…
• I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as…
• I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid…
• It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's…
• Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people.…
• Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the…
• Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help…
• I think there's a lot of hope in my work. I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in…
• I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.
• If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now.…
• It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
• All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
• Fight the power that be. Fight the power.
• Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming…
• For me, I believe in God, God is real.
• I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
• I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and…

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