We do not have an American culture. We have a white American culture and a black American culture. So when those two… — 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… — 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
What's happening is that Asian and Latino and other groups without that history are more likely to end up in either black… — 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
Preaching styles and people being slain in the spirit and things like that. Now it doesn't happen in all black churches, and… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
If we go into white congregations, non-whites will sometimes say it felt like worship never started. It was sort of dead and… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
It was an all-white church. It was starting to decline. They had to hire a new pastor, and they hired him. But… — 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
What happens is sometimes these congregations will still have the white style of worship, even though they're mixed, because folks are willing… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
It's one of the things we find in these congregations is that they are much more likely to be sort of up-beat… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Every pastor I talk to says, and particularly if they're African American they'll say, "I'm not black enough for African Americans. I'm… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
We're going to see more, and we are seeing more, and I'll tell you exactly why. Not because white and black are… — 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
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
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
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
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
