Power director Filmmaker New York City Brooklyn Fight the power that be. Fight the power. - Spike Lee
People 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. - Spike Lee
Love All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love. - Spike Lee
Action Nothing There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled. - Spike Lee
Work Want People 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. - Spike Lee
Character Film 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. - Spike Lee
Hope Right Now People Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do. - Spike Lee
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. - Maimonides
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts. - Sylvester Stallone
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. - John F. Kennedy