James Baldwin: From Another Place (1973), Sedat Pakay
I don’t really know what I am. I don’t consider myself to be a leader, I consider myself to be a kind of witness, I suppose, I don’t know. But my weapon, or my tool is my typewriter, is my pen. It would be a mistake for me to try to play some other kind of role, which I really couldn’t play very well. So there we are, that’s it.