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Guido 2022-09-11 10:41:54
about race
A very in-depth documentary. I've always wanted to know the story of black people, and this documentary is undoubtedly a very good entry point. One of the deepest feelings this documentary gave me was art. A perfect mix of music, interviews, film clips, narration, full of calm sadness, full of...
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America 2022-09-10 14:58:27
America from an African-American perspective
The documentary "I Am Not Your Negro" was completed in 2016, and the narrative is drawn from an unfinished work by the black novelist, essayist, playwright and poet James Baldwin. works. Black actor Samuel Jackson read aloud, sounding the tone of voice that matched the persuasiveness, insight and...
Billy Dee Williams
Personal Life
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James Baldwin: It comes as a great shock, around the age of five or six or seven, to discover that Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, when you were rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians were you. It comes as a great shock to discover the country which is your birthplace and to which you owe your life and your identity has not in its whole system of reality evolved any place for you.
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James Baldwin: All of the Western nations have been caught in a lie, the lie of their pretended humanism. This means that their history has no moral justification, and that the West has no moral authority. "Vile as I am," states one of the characters in Dostoevsky's The Idiot, "I don't believe in the wagons that bring bread to humanity. For the wagons that bring bread to humanity, may coldly exclude a considerable part of humanity from enjoying what is brought."
