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

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

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

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.

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

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

Can you imagine in 2016 there is a discussion about #OscarsSoWhite? Is it a novelty we've just discovered that the whole production machine is dominated by only one type of human being, excluding women, excluding gays, excluding minorities? This is not new.