Since The Days Of Slavery,

If We Became Students Of Malcolm X, We Would Not Have Young Black Men Out There Killing Each Other Like They're Killing Each Other Now. Young Black Men Would Not Be Impregnating Young Black Women At The Rate Going On Now. We'd Not Have The Drugs We Have Now, Or The Alcoholism.

Do The Right Thing' Was My First Union Film. I Looked At The Rosters, And For The Most Part, It Was White Males. Especially The Teamsters. So We Had Some Conversations.

As We Move Toward The Millennium, The Year 2000, The Most Powerful Nations Are Not Those That Have Nuclear Bombs, But Those That Control The Media. That's Where The Battle Is Being Fought; That Is How You Control People's Minds.

A Spine To My Films That's Become More Evident To Me Is That Many Are About The Choices People Make, And The Reverberations Of Those Choices. You Go This Way, Or That Way, And Either Way, There's Going To Be Consequences.

I Always Give The Example, If You Turn On The Radio Today, Black Radio, Lenny Kravitz Is Not Black. Bob Marley Wasn't Black: In The Beginning, Only White College Stations Played Bob Marley.