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Raoul Peck Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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.



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



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I just hope that my films will survive me.



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



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



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



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





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