"People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world."

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Source : "Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie's Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line". Interview with Will Leitch, www.vulture.com. July 8, 2012.

Spike Lee

#Frustration Quotes #Color Quotes #People Quotes

“You don't get a lot of suicidal vampires.”
“It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.”
“... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of these ideologies is the doctrine of natural rights. It was to secure these rights that the modern state was invented in the first place, and it is impossible, especially for Americans, not to be seduced by the doctrine. But it is nonetheless a philosophical superstition.”
“One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man's attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man's reason can a movement succeed.”
“Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand.”
“Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.”

Source : Kenneth Burke (1970). “The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology”, p.2, Univ of California Press
“There are no soul mates. Not in the traditional sense, at least. In my 20s someone told me that each person has not one but 30 soul mates walking the earth. (â€œYes,â€ said a colleague, when I informed him of this, â€œand Iâ€™m trying to sleep with all of them.â€) In fact, â€œsoul mateâ€ isnâ€™t a pre-existing condition. Itâ€™s an earned title. Theyâ€™re made over time.”
“Humanism is an approach to life which encourages ethical and fulfilling living on the basis of reason and humanity, and rejects superstition and religion. The most immediate impact of living as a Humanist is that we believe this life is all there is - so what we do and the choices we make really count.”

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