Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews | dG1fNVJwVHU1UXBGZTQ

Transcript

00:00 [Music]

00:25 If you ever find yourself somewhere lost and surrounded by enemies

00:38 who won't let you speak in your own language,

00:43 who destroy your statues and instruments,

00:47 who ban your "oom-boom-ba-boom,"

00:53 then you in trouble, deep trouble.

00:57 They ban your "oom-boom-ba-boom," you in deep, deep trouble.

01:03 [Gunshots]

01:05 Huh. Probably take you several hundred years to get out.

01:12 We were stripped of everything we had and been cast into the fiery furnace,

01:19 where they've been making a hell of hell for us for 400 years.

01:23 [Music]

01:26 The tradition says plainly to us, "Fight, plainly to us, fight."

01:30 That's in it clearly. We're not meant to be slaves.

01:33 It is a detour we have gone through and about to come out.

01:35 It is a detour we have gone through and about to come out

01:38 in the tradition of gorgeous Africa.

01:41 Blackness says to us, "Fight, it's all right, you beautiful as night."

01:47 The tradition says, "Thank you, Langston."

01:49 Arthur says, "Sing," says, "Fight," in the tradition,

01:52 always clarifying, always new and centuries old, says, "Sing, fight."

01:57 Sing, fight, sing, fight, sing, fight, sing, fight, sing, fight.

02:05 [Singing]

02:08 Death to the Klan.

02:12 [Singing]

02:17 Death to the Klan.

02:20 [Music]

02:22 [Music]

02:24 [Music]

02:27 [Music]

02:29 (electronic music)

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