“You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.” GivingPersonsProblemRealityEyeNamesStreetsExerciseRacismResponsibleCan NotCrowBeing ResponsibleJim Crow Author: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 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.” GivingDifferentCountryAgeWantedFilmYoungReflectionHollywoodKillingTricksInnocentEducateYoung AgeWayneAmbivalence Author:Raoul Peck
“The system gives you two minutes to phrase a whole history.” GivingTwoWholeMinutesPhrases Author:Raoul Peck
