Memorable Graduation Advice From the Stars18 of 38
Spike Lee to Johns Hopkins University's Class of 2016:
"There are two words that are in almost all of my 23 feature films to date. These two words are 'Wake up!' Wake up from your sleep. Wake up from being comatose. Wake up from the slumber that keeps your eyes shut to inequalities and injustices, to this often more than not evil, crazy, and insane world we live in. Let's move our unconscious minds from the back to the front of a conscious state, and wake up. Let’s leave our lofty ivory towers of institutions and get down to the people. As the sisters and brothers say in the block: 'Get Woke!'"
"There are two words that are in almost all of my 23 feature films to date. These two words are 'Wake up!' Wake up from your sleep. Wake up from being comatose. Wake up from the slumber that keeps your eyes shut to inequalities and injustices, to this often more than not evil, crazy, and insane world we live in. Let's move our unconscious minds from the back to the front of a conscious state, and wake up. Let’s leave our lofty ivory towers of institutions and get down to the people. As the sisters and brothers say in the block: 'Get Woke!'"
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