"I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence."

-- Spike Lee

#Powerful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists”
“There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.”
“I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.”
“â€¦the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others. It was thought more important to look healthy than to be healthy, and more important to seem bold and daring than to be so. This view of morality, since it is physiologically based on the special vanity peculiar to men, is perhaps the supreme male view of morality.”
“Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport, an unfair sport. If you're in Spain or Mexico it's absolutely not a sport; it's not thought of as a sport and it's not written about as a sport. It has elements of public spectacle, but then so does, for example, the Super Bowl. It has elements of a deeply entrenched, deeply conservative tradition, a tradition that resists change, as you pointed out.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.”

Source : "A New Standard: Kamasi Washington's Modern Jazz Revolution". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2015.
“To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.”

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