Spike Lee Quotes on People (9 Quotes)


    Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.

    People could not believe, especially the residents of the Ninth Ward, that there wasn't hanky-panky in the flooding.

    I dislike Condoleezza Rice more than President Bush. The thing about it is that she's gotten a free ride from black people.

    People say, 'She's so successful' and 'Look at her position as a black woman.' She is a black woman who grew up in Birmingham, Ala.,and said that she never experienced a day of racism in her life.

    Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing... then it will be done, but not until then.


    It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

    People didn't really believe me when I told them that I was going to be a filmmaker,

    I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

    Too many people are being bowled over by Bush and Tony Blair in Britain. It's ludicrous to expect the whole world to follow what they want.


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