Phrase by 'Raoul Peck'

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I never considered myself as somebody in exile because, different to my father who, yes, was in exile because he left Haiti as an adult, for me it was just to be somewhere else. I carried Haiti with me everywhere, but I also carried, you know, my youth in a public school in Brooklyn. It's part of who I am as well.

Author: Raoul Peck - Haitian Director
  Me , Myself , I Am , Father


Film is carrying a lot of ideology. It's carrying an image. It's forging an image not only of the rest of the world, but also of yourself, you know.

Author: Raoul Peck - Haitian Director
  You , Yourself , World , Rest


I never wanted to be current in the sense that I follow the news, I follow the historical moment of the day. It was always, for me, to go back to the fundamentals.

Author: Raoul Peck - Haitian Director
  Me , Moment , Never , Day


We forget that everything has a meaning, everything has an impact on you. It's what we call soft power today. Nothing is innocent.

Author: Raoul Peck - Haitian Director
  You , Forget , Today , Power


I remember a time when you were protesting on the street together with your professors, with your union, with your school organizations. Everybody was in the streets. Now, everybody is kept alone in his box, in this fragile condition, afraid of losing tenure.

Author: Raoul Peck - Haitian Director
  You , Time , Together , Alone


We need to learn how to organize, not just to let our anger explode. We need to have organization for the long run, not for one issue, not for one murder, but for everything coming to us in the next 20, 30 years.

Author: Raoul Peck - Haitian Director
  Everything , Long , Organization , Anger


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.

Author: Raoul Peck - Haitian Director
  Life , Me , People , Black


We forgot that Martin Luther King, Jr. changed his discourse toward the end of his life because he understood that the real fundamental problem of this country was not just race, it was class. It was the economical situation of not only poor blacks but also the poor white part of the population and everything in between.

Author: Raoul Peck - Haitian Director
  Life , White , Problem , King


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.

Author: Raoul Peck - Haitian Director
  People , History , America , Ignore


Right now, the machine keeps us totally busy. If you don't react against it, you'll end up letting yourself go and become the perfect consumer. That's what they want.

Author: Raoul Peck - Haitian Director
  You , Yourself , End , Busy


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