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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.
Spike Lee
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Spike Lee
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 20
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