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“I like the things every actor likes - I like great, intense duet scenes with good actors.”

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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,…

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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?…

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

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So you find a lot of these sixth Americans congregate in these interracial congregations. They hang out together at work, at school, wherever.

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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…

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We do not have an American culture. We have a white American culture and a black American culture. So when those two groups try…

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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…

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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…

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And different traditions stress different - so then there's that. I talked to an African American who says before she goes into an interracial…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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