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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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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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I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.
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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 to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.
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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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I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.
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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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