After watching baldwin’s documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, I found two important quotes. The first quote is “The root of the black man’s hatred is rage, and he does not so much hate the white man as simply wants them out of his way, and, more than that, out of his children’s way, The root of the white man’s hatred is terror, a bottomless and nameless terror, which focuses on this dread figure, an entity which lives only in his mind.” This quote really emphasizes the difference between the white man and the black man. There is no hate from a black man to a white man, only rage. He wants to protect his children and wants to be left alone, but the white man has this deep rooted fear living inside in his head that causes havoc and violence towards others. The second quote that i found to be important is “And that I am not a ward of America. I am not an object of missionary charity, I am one of the people who built the country.” I feel like this was very empowering, because in that moment he let people know he is no less than anyone else in that room, he stood his ground, and was confident.