Spike Lee

"In life, there are times to be quiet, and there are times to shut the fuck up. This is one of those times."

"Heres the thing. I grew up in Fort Greene. I grew up here in New York. Its changed. And why does it take an influx of white New Yorkers in the south Bronx, in Harlem, in Bed-Stuy, in Crown Heights for the facilities to get better?"

"You know, I grew up around black people my whole life. I mean, if the truth be told, I probably know niggas better than you. And dont go getting offended by my use of the quote-unquote N-word. I have a black wife and two biracial kids, so I feel I have a right. I dont give a God damn what that prick Spike Lee says. Tarantino was right. Nigger is just a word. If Ol Dirty Bastard can use it every other word, why cant I?"

"I know that its painful at times, but were not making this up. The depths of degradation in cartoons, movies, and television shows, the misrepresentation of a people - its an American legacy. Not just in television or movies, but in all media."

"My film is supposed to reflect that; it is an indictment of the people who write and accept those shows, because we know that they exist today. It also has to do with the $1 million question: What is black? It is a never-ending quest for who we are, and some people are still in search of that."