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Amiri Baraka Quote: 'Spike Lee is part of a ...'

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Profession: Poet
Nationality: American
Birthday: October 7, 1934

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Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.


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The thing about Spike Lee... that's a deep experience to work with someone who is that intense and knows their vision that well. The character I play in 'Red Hook Summer' is super country and super loud. I suppose he is some version of myself.
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I'm excited to be part of a movement that's progressing country music. There's always gonna be people saying, 'It ain't country anymore,' but I don't get into that whole deal.
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When I was growing up, Asians were so few and far between as to be almost invisible. And so the idea of an Asian American movement or an Asian American thrust in this country was unthinkable.
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I play characters, and I try to play them in a manner that's appropriate to the script. Physical movement and vitality of language is part of character.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.
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I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre-Spike Lee and post-blaxploitation era.
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I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.


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The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.
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'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks.


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I'm going to do anything I can do - whether that's being part of FIFA or creating some sort of movement that can actually impart real equality across all lines - in every country, every city, every sector all over the world, that's what I'm going to do.
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I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.


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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.


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I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.


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The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country.
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I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.
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I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
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I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.
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