Race Quotes by Michael Emerson

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

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

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.

— Michael Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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