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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...
Claudia McNeil
Extended Reading
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James Baldwin: Someone once said to me that the people in general cannot bear very much reality. He meant by this that they prefer fantasy to a truthful recreation of their experience. People have quite enough reality to bear, by simply getting through their lives, raising their children, dealing with the eternal conundrums of birth, taxes, and death.
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James Baldwin: We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.
