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Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

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Spike Lee
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 20
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American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.
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I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.
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'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks.
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I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.
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If you can't take a hit, you're not going to last long, that's for sure.
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I don't see any negativity with what Brad Pitt is doing with his Make It Right Foundation, or what Sean Penn is trying to do in Haiti.
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Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.
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I've got Sometimers. Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget.
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I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.
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I like people to look like they're floating.
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I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.
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Sex and racism have always been tied together. Look at the thousands of black men who got lynched and castrated. The reason the Klan came into being was to protect white southern women.
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This film [Chi-Raq]is a declaration. It's a scream. It's a warning. And I can really break it down to one scene. That's the scene where we have the eulogy and sermon that is given by the great John Cusack.
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It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.
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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. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.
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Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.
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We’ve gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that’s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?
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Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.
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Racism in America absolutely exists - it is an issue. We need to fix it. We're a great country - probably the greatest country but we could be a hell of a lot greater.
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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 you tell a story.
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