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Black People Quotes by Spike Lee
- I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have…
- I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Amongst black people, you have always heard it said that once a black man reaches a certain level, especially if you are an entertainer, you…
- Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since…
- I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture…
- I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so…
More Black People Quotes
- It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over… — Erykah Badu
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin
- But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. — Charles Barkley
- The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black… — Eden Ahbez
- It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater. — Alvin Ailey
- Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country. — H. Rap Brown
- But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws… — H. Rap Brown
- In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the… — H. Rap Brown
- It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community.… — Stokely Carmichael
- I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. — Stokely Carmichael
- One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could… — Stokely Carmichael