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Danny Glover
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: July 22
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President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.
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I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.
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I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.
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It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.
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I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
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Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: How'd we do? How much? It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.
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It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.
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If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
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Democracy is about criticism.
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Some of the most amazing stories are happening on the global scene. My extraordinary producing partner, Joslyn Barnes, she's just virtually changed my life with the way she constructed this company and how we go about telling the stories we want to tell.
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We're trying to tell stories. We're a company that's concerned with global change and the effect of global cinema. We're not simply tied to the very limiting framework of U.S. film-making.
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Just look at the cinema itself: It's comprised of lots of movies about graphic novels, and if you're not 20 years old and wearing a cape and a mask and white, you're out of business. Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.
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I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.
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But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.
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The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.
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Mother Earth is in pain and ailing because of global warming.
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One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country America.
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Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
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I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.
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Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.
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