James Baldwin is probably, for me and for many other people, one of the most extraordinary authors in this country, black or… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Why would anything change that has not been changed since the existence of cinema? [James] Baldwin somehow wakes you up to reality.… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Over the years, he disappeared - like a lot of our leaders disappear. [James Baldwin] was not assassinated, but somehow he went… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
[James] Baldwin said the real question is not when there will be the first Negro president in this country. The important question… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice." — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
James Baldwin had an unrivaled understanding of politics and history and, above all, the human condition. His prose is laser sharp. His… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties,… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties,… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
[James] Baldwin was a celebrity. A TV show like Kenneth Clark could put him aside of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
It was really always about bringing back [James] Baldwin's words in all their rawness, in all their impact - in the way… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
America has been living on the back of the whole world! If you take how much energy we consume, like, 20 percent of the… — Raoul Peck Copy Share
You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising… — Raoul Peck Copy Share
If you asked me today if there's a piece that I would do differently - there's nothing. Regret happens with all my films. — Raoul Peck Copy Share
Your tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject. — Raoul Peck Copy Share
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant… — Raoul Peck Copy Share
When I left Haiti, I was eight. I went to the Congo where my father was working. The only images that I had were… — Raoul Peck Copy Share
Over the years, he disappeared - like a lot of our leaders disappear. [James Baldwin] was not assassinated, but somehow he went through those… — Raoul Peck Copy Share
You face the reality, whether it's hopeful or hopeless. What's your alternative? To lie down and die? — Raoul Peck Copy Share
Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined. — Raoul Peck Copy Share
You're telling me Beyonce is a revolutionary? Thirty years ago, you had those guys who raised their fists at the Olympic games, and they… — Raoul Peck Copy Share
Film is carrying a lot of ideology. It's carrying an image. It's forging an image not only of the rest of the world, but… — Raoul Peck Copy Share
International aid as a means of development is a major failure, and not just in Haiti. — Raoul Peck Copy Share
I studied economics. I studied industrial engineering. It wasn't until later, when I was around 26, that I really decided to go to film school. — Raoul Peck Copy Share
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