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Spike Lee
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 20
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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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If you can't take a hit, you're not going to last long, that's for sure.
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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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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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