Quotes by Raoul Peck

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[James] Baldwin “was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice.”

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[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery.

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Slavery

[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.

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[James] Baldwin said the real question is not when there will be the first Negro president in this country. The important question is what country he’s going to be the president of.

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[James] Baldwin was a celebrity. A TV show like Kenneth Clark could put him aside of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. He was, at least, one of the three most important spokesmen of the movement and of the black community.

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[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back to it. It’s not just about stories. It’s about philosophy. It’s about criticizing the world. It’s about deconstructing the world around you.

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Can you imagine in 2016 there is a discussion about #OscarsSoWhite? Is it a novelty we’ve just discovered that the whole production machine is dominated by only one type of human being, excluding women, excluding gays, excluding minorities? This is not new.

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Face your reality. You, black or white, are not innocent anymore. Either you have the courage to face it or you will go down together with the whole idea of the American Dream.

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From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He’s watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came to the point that the Indians were him. You had to educate yourself because the movies were not educating you. The movies were giving you a reflection of you that was not the truth. That’s the trick. The movie was also giving a reflection of what the country is. Basically, a country that wanted itself to be innocent. That’s the ambivalence of Hollywood.

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I felt that the world, and in particular this country, were going in circles. What had happened 40 or 50 years ago was happening again, but even in a worse form – that we were sinking into a lot of ignorance and a lot of superficial change.

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Quotes by Raoul Peck

Raoul Peck

[James] Baldwin “was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice.”

[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery.

[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.

[James] Baldwin said the real question is not when there will be the first Negro president in this country. The important question is what country he’s going to be the president of.

[James] Baldwin was a celebrity. A TV show like Kenneth Clark could put him aside of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. He was, at least, one of the three most important spokesmen of the movement and of the black community.

[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back to it. It’s not just about stories. It’s about philosophy. It’s about criticizing the world. It’s about deconstructing the world around you.

Can you imagine in 2016 there is a discussion about #OscarsSoWhite? Is it a novelty we’ve just discovered that the whole production machine is dominated by only one type of human being, excluding women, excluding gays, excluding minorities? This is not new.

Face your reality. You, black or white, are not innocent anymore. Either you have the courage to face it or you will go down together with the whole idea of the American Dream.

I felt that the world, and in particular this country, were going in circles. What had happened 40 or 50 years ago was happening again, but even in a worse form – that we were sinking into a lot of ignorance and a lot of superficial change.

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