Raoul Peck Quotes

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.

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

I just hope that my films will survive me.

[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery.

The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape the man that I am today. My debt to him is invaluable.

[James] Baldwin said the real question is not when there will be the first Negro president in this country. The important question is what country he's going to be the president of.

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

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

Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.

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

[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.

You need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

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

International aid as a means of development is a major failure, and not just in Haiti.

I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct - sometimes you have to name the name. You can't hide it. Politeness is good if it's not hiding the truth.

That's part of being a real citizen: always questioning your leadership, not only about what it is doing in your own country, but what it is doing elsewhere. Because it is connected.