A lot of people will have to do a lot of explaining on AIDS one day. All of a sudden a disease appears out of nowhere that nobody has a cure for, and it's specifically targeted at gays and minorities. The mystery disease—yeah, about as mysterious as genocide.I'm concerned that AIDS is a government-engineered disease. They got one thing wrong, they never realized it couldn't just be contained to the groups it was intended to wipe out.
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Spike Lee, interviewed by Rolling Stone, November 12, 1992: