” James Baldwin is probably, for me and for many other people, one of the most extraordinary authors in this country, black or white. And he is somebody who changed my life. “
” We ignore our own history. We ignore all these values and valuable people who really changed everything, who sacrificed their own lives for a better America. “
” Even in Haiti, I saw John Wayne movies. American cinema has always been the dominant cinema throughout the world, and people tend to forget that. People aren’t just seeing these films in California or Florida. They’re seeing them in Haiti, in Congo, in France, in Italy and in Asia. That is the power of Hollywood. “
” Sometimes people ask me, ‘Are you an optimist or a pessimist?’ It doesn’t matter. Whether I have a future or not is for me to decide. “
” People don’t realize how black people, minorities, women as well, all their lives, they have had to make the effort to understand everybody else. All my life, I’ve known American culture very well. I probably know American literature more than the average American. “
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