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It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.
Spike Lee
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Spike Lee
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 20
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Sheldon Lee
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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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I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work.
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I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.
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