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I was going to write my masters degree thesis on Spike Lee, but now I'm probably only going to use him or a few of his films as examples.
I think that even if Lee's films aren't always brilliant or good even, they're always interesting. As Monkeypunch said, he has a vision and he wants his films to affect more than the world of movies. If Spike Lee as a person is a racist I really can't say even if have read/heard/seen more things that prove the opposite. But that his films are racist are just pure nonsense.
I really like Do the Right Thing, She's Gotta Have It, Mo' Better Blues, Get On the Bus, Malcolm X, Bamboozled, Summer of Sam and some others. As Holden said, there are a few that are not brilliant but, again, they're mostly all worth seeing for various reasons.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".
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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.