Danny Glover
Danny Glover
Danny Lebern Gloveris an American actor, film director, and political activist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth22 July 1946
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
country men looks
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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They were enormous for me, you can't imagine how enormous, ... Those are the people that kind of pulled me through.
breaking five outside pass point stand street
The breaking point was to stand outside on 116th Street and have five cabs pass me up.
band dictates merely type
Band isn't something you do as a hobby, but merely a way of life. What you do in the band dictates the kind of person you are, or what type of person you will become.
bush designed eliminate far matters promoted race
Bush promoted a conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so far in matters of race and equality.
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I was seven years old when the U.S. Supreme Court made the decision in Brown v. Board of Education. From that point on, I followed the movement.
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She alone has stood up for issues that are important to this country and important to the world. We're not here to judge the merits of the case; we're here to support our sister.
bin death jail penalty whether
The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a jail or it's bin Laden.
fun kids dark
Kids made fun of me because I was dark skinned, had a wide nose, and was dyslexic. Even as an actor, it took me a long time to realize why words and letters got jumbled in my mind and came out differently.
jobs new-orleans cities
New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages?
artist trying roles
Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you want to do, that you attempt to do as an artist, is to have some sort of input into the material that you are working on. That is how my process begins; I say to myself: "I want to do this kind of work or I want to do that kind of work."
texas race people
Yes, (Bush is a) racist. We all knew that but the world is only finding it out now. As Texas's governor, Bush led a penitentiary system that executed more people than all the other U.S. states together. And most of the people who died from (the) death penalty were Afro-Americans or Hispanics. (Bush) promoted a Conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so far in matters of race and equality.
years white creating
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.
believe trying needs
I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.