"It's them goddamn rebels..." -- Richard is born, 1908 -- Memphis, Tennessee, dread and distrust... -- Terror... some natural force -- A somberness of spirit -- The white South has never known me... -- Chicago seemed an unreal city... -- "...as though offering libations of forgiveness to my environment." -- All my life I had been full of a hunger for a new way to live... -- New York, 1937 -- I love my people... -- Native son -- Dhima or Ellen? -- Ellen and Julia -- Black boy -- How many understand how they make us feel and live... -- World War II -- To live in this land is to breath poison each day... -- Dear Richard, It is obvious that you and I are the only two geniuses of this era... Gertrude Stein -- I feel certain that she knows already much more than she knows she knows... -- But I am filled with the details of living... -- I choose exile... -- I must make this film... -- The black existentialist and the white Freudian... -- Black Power... -- Pagan Spain -- I want to assume an attitude that places me wholly on the side of feeling in life... -- Island of hallucination... -- We fret, we feel frustrated, but things are moving on the broad scale. We must never forget that.
