I Am Not Your Negro Comments

  • Gaetano 2022-09-14 22:36:13

    7 points. Samuel Jackson's seiyuu hides moving power in a low and weak voice. Looking back at the history of 3M blacks (Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers and Malcolm X), that is, looking back at the history of racial equality protests in the United States for more than half a...

  • Edgardo 2022-09-12 04:04:29

    Lincoln Center saw this, shocked by the invisible wall between races in American society. There is a saying in it that I don't know what has not been done for the sake of racial equality. I was a little confused when the show was over, I'm not a pessimist, because I live in the real...

  • Ola 2022-09-10 20:47:37

    IMDb closed the message and private message function because many people maliciously brushed low scores in this...

  • Arnold 2022-09-10 18:23:08

    "The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we...

  • Otis 2022-09-10 15:13:01

    "I want to tell a story, a story about black people in America, which is America's own story. It's not a good story." Baldwin, who returned from Europe, tried to write about the assassination of three affirmative action activists he knew, Evers, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, "A white man who takes up arms and says 'free or die' is a hero, a black man rises up and says exactly the same thing, he is not considered a...

  • Soledad 2022-09-10 13:11:41

    Baldwin's writing is indeed excellent, and the film's narration is very powerful and provocative. As a member of a minority, it is difficult not to be moved; and he has indeed been trapped in his identity as a middle-class intellectual throughout his life. The public angrily complained that perhaps the best outcome could only be now, and could not go...

  • Fiona 2022-09-10 12:20:17

    The top 10 of the year was unexpectedly many of the best interpretations of some movies. After the Cambridge speech, black and white turned to color. The audience stood up and applauded. White people surrounded Baldwin, a black man at NYFF54, Francesca Beale...

Extended Reading

I Am Not Your Negro quotes

  • 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.

  • Narration: The blue sky seemed to descend like a blanket, and I couldn't see anything. I couldn't cry.

I Am Not Your Negro

Director: Raoul Peck

Language: English,French Release date: February 17, 2017