"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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Source : Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Spike Lee

#Blessed Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Views Quotes

“Each time I think I’ve reached a limit....there is a door....it opens....and the limit is gone.”
“We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.”
“Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.”

Source : "Elizabeth Reaser is Still Learning". Interview with Meryl Cates, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 07, 2012.
“It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.”
“It's not only progressives who listen to progressive radio.”
“Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.”
“In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.”

Source : John Lothrop Motley (1858). “The rise of the Dutch Republic: a history in three volumes”, p.7
“Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.”

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