Taken Notes

Adell 2022-11-12 09:51:23

1. It is a duty not a right. (Sitting down on a segregated bus)
2. If I was Irish, Jewish, Polish, my hero would be your heroes too. And you would mourn and hurt just as much when we lose them 3.
(Sth like, they dont know and they don't want to know) I know more about you than more you know about me.
4. Nothing can be changed until it's faced.
5. We carry our history with us. We are our history.
6. white is a metaphor for power.



I never thought deeply about the ''power' part when I took gender sex and power last semester.
Now im thinkin when I


walked out of the cinema, the rap at the end of the credits was angry and Self-mocking white couple walking in front looks uncomfortable but very good thing is it's not just black americans watching this documentary

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I Am Not Your Negro quotes

  • James Baldwin: ...a journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do with what you find, or what you find will do to you.

  • 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.