Black Quote by Raoul Peck

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

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

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

Your tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject.

— 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

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

I have always tried to put content in my work. It is a consistent challenge.

— Raoul Peck

The system gives you two minutes to phrase a whole history.

— Raoul Peck

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

You face the reality, whether it's hopeful or hopeless. What's your alternative? To lie down and die?

— Raoul Peck

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

— Raoul Peck

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