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Spike Lee

"Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith."

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"Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith."

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Amber Hurdle

"No one on earth is "functionless". The problem we usually have is that functions of people are being displayed in the wrong positions! Change position!"

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"By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty, for sure we can change our society."

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Amber Hurdle

"Just change your attitude and perception to change your life."

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"If you are unhappy with your life and the state of the world, the best place to start changing things is within yourself."

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"This world has been changing from time immemorial. But because it is "round (subject to cycle of cause-effect), one cannot find an end to it."

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Amber Hurdle

"All things that we ordained festival,Turn from their office to black funeral;Our instruments to melancholy bells,Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,And all things change them to the contrary."

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Amber Hurdle

"We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you want to change anything or your surroundings, change your perception; it will change everything."

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"Life moves forward, not backward, and it would be wise to listen to what change has to say."

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"Let us revolt against the nightmare, and work together for a kinder world."

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"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."
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"We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts."
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"I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful."
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"Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest."
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"I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too."
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"I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley."
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"I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic."
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"There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic."
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"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."
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"I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive."
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