All My Life I've Tried To Hide

I Look At The Stories That Spike Lee Tells... Great Stories. Great Director, Great Storyteller.

Statistics Say That I'm Supposed To Be In Jail. And I'm Not Supposed To Be Alive.

What I've Found About It Is That There Are Some Folks You Can Talk To Until You're Blue In The Face--they're Never Going To Get It And They're Never Going To Change. But Every Once In A While, You'll Run Into Someone Who Is Eager To Listen, Eager To Learn, And Willing To Try New Things. Those Are The People We Need To Reach. We Have A Responsibility As Parents, Older People, Teachers, People In The Neighborhood To Recognize That.

I Work Three Months Really Hard, Nonstop, And Then I Take A Month Off. Then I Do It All Over Again. I Work Hard But I Give Myself Four Breaks A Year.

Don't Make A Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings".