We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race,… — 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,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career. — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Absolutely, although every congregation will say, you know, every worship leader will say it's vital. It's very important, but again these are,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
In your actor's heart, you know when you're playing well. Others may not always agree with you, but I'm always aware of… — 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
We just say there are five, you know, racial groups in the US. I say that these folks are what we call… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the things we find when we talk to people that attend these congregations, they all have social cost to it.… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I may have to shop with them. But on Sunday I don't want to have to worship with them. I want to… — 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
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… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
So there was great clashes when, you know, if you believe you shouldn't remove your shoes and someone's taking their shoes off,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Once in a while you get people that maybe because of economic reasons, or have a social network, they get attracted. But… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
And again, this connection that you get: I meet Joe at church. Joe's connected to a whole network of people I don't… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
They could never go back to being a uniracial congregation again. It brings excitement. It brings life. It allows them to be… — 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 Image
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 Image
I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic. — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
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 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 terrified once… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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