“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.” HumansWholeHuman BeingsImagineTypeGayMachinesProductionsDiscussionMinoritiesNovelty Author:Raoul Peck
“The system gives you two minutes to phrase a whole history.” GivingTwoWholeMinutesPhrases Author: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 social critic, he foreshadowed the destructive trends happening now in the whole Western world and beyond, while always maintaining a sense of humanistic hope and dignity. He explored palpable, yet unspoken, intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies and the inevitable, if unnameable, tensions with personal identity, assumptions, uncertainties, yearning, and questing.” IfsWorldWholeSocialHalfClassCenturyIdentityHappeningsDignityCriticsWesternBrilliantInevitableUncertaintyTensionAssumptionDistinctionDestructiveTrendsYearningMaintainingTwentieth CenturyUnspokenWestern WorldAmerican WriterHumanisticIntricacyPersonal IdentityWestern SocietyClass Distinction Author:Raoul Peck
“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.” IdeasWholeDreamRealityTogetherFacesBlackWhiteInnocentAmerican DreamBlack Or White Author:Raoul Peck