I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis - not someone playing Angela Davis. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I was a member of the Black Student Union, part of the central committee at San Francisco State. During the 1968 strike… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Remember, we're talking [in The Black Power Mixtape] about 1967, the year before [Martin Luther] King's assassination. We're talking about the emergence… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I remember when Langston Hughes used to write a column in black newspapers around this character Jesse B. Semple. He always used… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does - and who he has at… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
The Black Power Mixtape is a documentary, first of all. It brings us closer to the voices we heard at that particular… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Democracy is about criticism. I didn't elect Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
The strike and its outcome had an enormous impact on the system of education and on our lives as well. The strike… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak,… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
What he [Barack Obama] does to change the world - that's what's important. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
My Toussaint [Louverture] film is in limbo. We still hope after all this time that we can find another way to get this film… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
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… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New Orleans, or… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis - not someone playing Angela Davis. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
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