In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.

Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups.

I like paths that lead nowhere, that leave you wondering where you are.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.

It is truly regrettable that a person will treat a man who is valuable to him well, and a man who is worthless to him poorly.

ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.

Falling on your face, at the very least, is a forward movement.

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

Better ten days of love than years of regretting.