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

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.

You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.

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

It was really always about bringing back [James] Baldwin's words in all their rawness, in all their impact - in the way he analyzes not only this country but also the history of this country, the images that this country is fabricating through Hollywood, and what consequence that has in our imagination.

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

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