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.

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

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

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

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

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

There are only one or two geniuses every century.