Consequence Quote by Raoul Peck

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

James Baldwin had an unrivaled understanding of politics and history and, above all, the human condition. His prose is laser sharp. His onslaught is…

— Raoul Peck

It means so much to be a part of bringing James Baldwin's words to life.

— KiKi Layne

“Sociologically, politically, psychologically, spiritually, it was never enough for James Baldwin to categorize himself as one thing or the other: not just black, not…

— Aberjhani

I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handedly revolutionized…

— Raoul Peck

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…

— Raoul Peck

I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handily revolutionized…

— Raoul Peck

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

— Raoul Peck

Why would anything change that has not been changed since the existence of cinema? [James] Baldwin somehow wakes you up to reality. It takes…

— Raoul Peck

“When I was 10, I read James Baldwin's 'Another Country,' and that book broke me. Not because I was encountering homosexual sex and love…

— Chris Abani

“Most, I loved James Baldwin's essays. There was to a Baldwin essay a metropolitan elegance I envied, a refusal of the livid. In Baldwin…

— Richard Rodriguez

I think one of the things that started to hinder Baldwin as an artist later on was that he became really aware of power,…

— Hilton Als