aslında başlık şu şekilde olacaktı: "meeting the man: james baldwin in paris" ama `:` başlıkta olmuyor galiba..(bkz: james baldwin'le buluşmak) 1970 terrence dixon filmi. yine james baldwin o gözlerindeki ışıltıyla o hayat tutkusuyla o haklılığıyla, o black man in a white worldlüğüyle, o aşırı kendinden eminliğiyle sağlam bir ders veriyor.
"love has never been a popular movement and no-one's ever wanted really to be free. the world is held together, really it is, held together by the love and the passion of a very few people. otherwise of course you can despair. walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. what you've got to remember is what you're looking at is also you.you could be that person. you could be that monster, you could be that cop. and you have to decide, in yourself, not to be. the logic of despair isn't for me. if you live under the shadow of death, it gives you a certain freedom. ı'm perfectly happy, odd as it sounds, and relatively free."
"love has never been a popular movement and no-one's ever wanted really to be free. the world is held together, really it is, held together by the love and the passion of a very few people. otherwise of course you can despair. walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. what you've got to remember is what you're looking at is also you.you could be that person. you could be that monster, you could be that cop. and you have to decide, in yourself, not to be. the logic of despair isn't for me. if you live under the shadow of death, it gives you a certain freedom. ı'm perfectly happy, odd as it sounds, and relatively free."