Spike Lee Movie Quotes

One by one the Essence Awards honorees were called onto the stage. First went civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, then movie director Spike Lee, followed by comedian Eddie Murphy, and then Dr. Benjamin S. Carson. Ben stood and walked forward to the stage. It was one of the most surreal moments of his life. He wondered how he belonged in the same category as those around him on the stage. It was hard for him to imagine that he, a pediatric neurosurgeon, was being publicly honored along with the most recognizable African American men and women in the country. As he stood onstage, staring out at the crowd, Ben thought about the path his life had taken. Who could have guessed that he, a poor black boy from a single-parent home in Detroit, would end up a brain surgeon? Certainly not those who had considered him the class dummy back in elementary school. Here he was, not just a brain surgeon, but a brain surgeon being honored for the work he had undertaken—experimental surgeries that gave children a chance at life.

Well, Strictly Business (1991) got one of the highest ratings ever from a test screening - and that movie was a piece of shit.

seats. At a little before eleven, Jean Griffith, the mother of Michael Griffith, the young Black man who’d been killed three years earlier in Howard Beach, arrived and settled into one of the front pews. Nearby was the young filmmaker Spike Lee, whose third movie, Do the Right Thing, had been released earlier that summer, and the members of the rap group Public Enemy, whose hit single “Fight the Power” was the movie’s iconic theme song. By the time the Hawkins family made its way through the knot