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From Quotes by Spike Lee
- We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.
- American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.
- Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.
- People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing.' But I've been working…
- I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you are…
- 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…
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