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piecemeal death is dangerous. Once you start to taste the sugar, you take more and more, and before you know it you’re addicted to sugar

— Haile Gerima

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How willing are you to be your own spectator, your own audienœ—just to look at what you're doing as it happens?

The script is written in front of us. All we have to do is amplify it with the camera, put the light on it.

It’s important to defend how you think, converted, inverted, concave, it doesn’t matter.

I’m interested in humanizing facts. Facts have to be nationalized by human emotion because facts have been dehumanized, decapitated from the people who need them, and used as a weapon against them.

What are we doing here unless we have young Black people behind us to take over?

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