But what we found in the study is that churches are ten times less diverse than the neighborhoods they sit in. So… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
There's always the question of time. Does time at 10:00 mean 10:00 sharp? Or does it mean give or take a few… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I think with President Obama there's going to be a discussion, because he himself is multiracial, because we have for the first… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
And sometimes the clergy are blindsided by that. Other times they realize that ahead of time and say they're not going to… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I see it happen in uniracial congregations all the time. But people - when they're in mixed company, we speak differently. — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time developing in books why worshipping separately actually impacts inequality, economic, social, on and on. So I… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Humor is so culturally based that when I try to tell a joke as me being a white American, if I tell… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of life there, but it's a different sort, because there's a lot less immigrants and a lot more racial,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
So we didn't get the denominations and the separate congregations really till about into Civil War time. What's happened then, of course,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Maybe there's even anger. But if they make it through that they come to a new agreement, and they start creating a… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
There were times when I thought I had to be completely off-book and ready to give my opening night performance at the… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share
Call-and-response style, yes, exactly. So whenever different groups get together then there has to be this long period of negotiation. How will we worship?… — Michael Emerson Copy Share
I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic. — Michael Emerson Copy Share
So you find a lot of these sixth Americans congregate in these interracial congregations. They hang out together at work, at school, wherever. — Michael Emerson Copy Share
There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once… — Michael Emerson Copy Share
We do not have an American culture. We have a white American culture and a black American culture. So when those two groups try… — Michael Emerson Copy Share
I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they… — Michael Emerson Copy Share
But what we found in the study is that churches are ten times less diverse than the neighborhoods they sit in. So there's something… — Michael Emerson Copy Share
And different traditions stress different - so then there's that. I talked to an African American who says before she goes into an interracial… — Michael Emerson Copy Share
I think it's easier, I really do, because of not having that similar history, so that's why I think two-thirds of these mixed congregations… — Michael Emerson Copy Share
There are three things, and it depends on the group that we're talking about, but there's history, there's culture, and then there's social networks.… — Michael Emerson Copy Share
I ask the clergy why don't I see myself represented in leadership? And I'm told, and this happens quite a bit, "We don't think… — Michael Emerson Copy Share
I was a magazine illustrator for many years before I became an actor, and I used to think, 'Oh, God, all those wasted years!'… — Michael Emerson Copy Share
We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race, we end… — Michael Emerson Copy Share
This is this thing I harp on: Sometimes acting can be a self-defeating psychological enterprise if we feel like we're desperate, if we feel… — Michael Emerson Copy Share
