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If we pretend otherwise, we are literally criminals. I attest to this: the world is not white; it never was white, cannot be white. White is a metaphor for power, and that is simply a way of describing Chase Manhattan Bank.”. ― James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro. tags: history , power , racism.
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Editor's note: This piece includes quotes from James Baldwin in which he uses a racial slur. Fimmaker Raoul Peck's Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro features the work of...
I Am Not Your Negro: Directed by Raoul Peck. With Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X. Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
(audience laugh) I’m glad you’re smiling. (audience laugh) Is it at once getting much better and still hopeless? James Baldwin: I don’t think there’s much hope for it, you know, to tell you the truth, as long as people are using this peculiar language.
On Friday, Raoul Peck’s Oscar-nominated documentary “I Am Not Your Negro” will be released in theaters. The film, narrated in part by Samuel L. Jackson, is comprised entirely of the writings and recordings of James Baldwin, the great author and Civil Rights activist.
I Am Not Your Negro is also not your Baldwin CliffsNotes. Instead, Peck gives us a far more urgent, revelatory document: a visual imagining of the writer's last, unfinished manuscript.
