#lack

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#dad #each #eccentricity #felt #grew

The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike. ↗

— Gary Larson

#black #black hole #calendar #cartoon #daily

I liked the fact that there were so many different representations of black women and black men in the movie. It wasn't like we all had the same agenda. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

#black #different #fact #had #i

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#concepts #describing #flow #into #lacks

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith. ↗

— Spike Lee

#been #black #change #cinema #days

I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive. ↗

— Spike Lee

#been #black #coming #criticisms #dogged

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable. ↗

— Spike Lee

#advantage #been #black #blessed #express

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

#black #brought #comes #define #down

People think I'm this angry black man walking around in a constant state of rage. ↗

— Spike Lee

#around #black #constant #constant state #i

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

#affirmative #affirmative action #arrived #black #black and white