“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.” AbleFilmSpiritualityCommunitySleepPowerfulHappenedAngerAfrican AmericanVery PowerfulSmall Communities Author:Danny Glover
“I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.” BelieveVainInvolvement Author:Danny Glover
“We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died. The groundwork for the move steadily to the right happened with the Reagan administration. People want to elevate him to some mythic level; they have their own reason for doing that.” PeopleKnowsWantReasonMovingLevelsHappenedMilitaryDiedAffairAdministrationLegacyIranFundingGroundworkIran Contra Author:Danny Glover
“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” LittlesStatesPlayBlackCommunityStudentsPoetCommunicationInvolvedProgramInvitedSan FranciscoInfluentialCampusSemesterCleaver Author:Danny Glover
“When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace” ThinkingWantJobsPastMovedEmbraceYou Choose Author:Danny Glover
“The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist” PeopleStillsWarReasonMomentsAmericaEnergyMovementTradeIraqResistanceCelebrateAgreementResolveLatinProgressiveOccupationLatin AmericaFree TradeTrade AgreementsProgressive Movement Author:Danny Glover
“We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions” HardAsksWedgesHard Questions Author:Danny Glover
“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.” IfsMenLooksCountryYoungLevelsHighestPrisonYoung ManToxicHoustonIlliteracy Author:Danny Glover
“Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects” ThinkingLongWantedFilmValuesCoursesActorsSawsGoes OnProjectsDecidedCuban Author:Danny Glover
