Spike Lee Quotes About Racism

Quotes about: Racism

• I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.

  Spike Lee

  Couple, Racism, Giving

  "Spike Lee Hates Your Cracker Ass" by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, www.esquire.com. October 1992.

• 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.

  Spike Lee

  Law, White, America

• I don't think racism can be eliminated in my lifetime ... or my children's or grandchildren's. But I think it's something we have to strive for. I'm going to keep working toward that day coming.

  Spike Lee

  Children, Thinking, Racism

  Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

  Spike Lee

  Thinking, Racism, Prejudice

  Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.26, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Sex and racism have always been tied together. Look at the thousands of black men who got lynched and castrated. The reason the Klan came into being was to protect white southern women.

  Spike Lee

  Sex, Men, White

• Racism in America absolutely exists - it is an issue. We need to fix it. We're a great country - probably the greatest country but we could be a hell of a lot greater.

  Spike Lee

  Country, Racism, Hell

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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