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Transcription: [00:36:33]
{SPEAKER name="James Baldwin"}
...profoundly, profoundly disagree with it. I do not think that we should allow any such pious consideration halt this drive.

[00:36:49]
{audience members} Yeah! [[applause]]

[00:37:00]
{audience member 1}
Mr. Baldwin, can you explain what you meant by your statement when you said that you could not really be free in this country even if you wanted to, and even if everything was open to you?

[00:37:12]
{SPEAKER name="James Baldwin"}
What I am trying to suggest is this: I said that I could not be, even if I wanted to be, fitted into the social structure as it stands. And what I am suggesting, among other things, what I am suggesting is a standard of life lived by most White Americans is a standard I reject.

[00:37:31]
{SPEAKER name="James Baldwin"}
I will not live that way. And in order for me to live in this country as a free man, they will have to grow up. I don't think that I'm in the least prepared to exchange what I've learned in the streets of Harlem for all the lies I've picked up since in Chicago Sheraton hotels.

[00:37:51]
{SPEAKER name="James Baldwin"}
No. No! I know something about what it is, what is like to live and be a human being, which most White Americans do not know. In order for us to survive in this nation, they have to find out what I know, what Ray Charles knows, what Bessie Smith knew. That is what I mean.

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[[silence]]

[00:38:10]
{SPEAKER name="James Baldwin"}
Yes.

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{audience member 2}
Mr. Baldwin, what do you think of the place of the White man in the movies? It's been a subject of great discussion [[?]].
[[laughter]]

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[audience member 3}
[[?]] Can you repeat that question for us? Can you say it out loud?

[00:38:25]
{audience member 2}
I asked him, I asked him what he thought of the place of the White man in the movies.
[[laughter, clapping]]

[00:38:37]
{SPEAKER name="James Baldwin"}
That's a very tough question in a way, but I'll tell you what, the only thing that's really tough about it.