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Power is knowing your past.

Spike Lee

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Spike Lee
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 20
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You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what I tell my students every day in class. I've been very fortunate. Some people might call me a hardhead, but I'm not going to let other people dictate to me who I should be or the stories I should tell. That doesn't register with me.
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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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We've got to turn this backward thinking around where ignorance is championed over intelligence. Young black kids being ridiculed by their peers for getting A's and speaking proper English: that's criminal.
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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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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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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 get a white trophy woman. I didn't make that up.
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I'm surprised that Hollywood and networks have not been diverse as other industries.
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I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.
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I've got Sometimers. Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget.
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I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.
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For me, I believe in God, God is real.
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I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing for young kids.
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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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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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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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It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.
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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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Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.
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When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.
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