If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view.
Haile GerimaI really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
Haile GerimaYou have to be willing to put everything you've got towards the project. That to me is very important. And it may not be part of the fad, being the clichรฉd kind of film that's going to be successful.
Haile GerimaFor me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.
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