It’s also important for those who promote those issues within the white community – the somewhat privileged community – to talk about issues affecting people of color. Danny Glover Read Quote
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country. Danny Glover Read Quote
I’m not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever. Danny Glover Read Quote
I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family. Danny Glover Read Quote
I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men. Danny Glover Read Quote
But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe. Danny Glover Read Quote
You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty. Danny Glover Read Quote
In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That’s how I got involved; I got involved in a little play. Danny Glover Read Quote
