Every day of my life I walk with the ide... by Danny Glover | We Heart Quotes

Life

Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.

- Danny Glover

Other quotes by Danny Glover

Fact Life

Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.

- Danny Glover

Community Writers

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play.

- Danny Glover

Jobs Past Want

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.

- Danny Glover

Actor Thought Being

I never thought about being an actor.

- Danny Glover

People

But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.

- Danny Glover

Education School Freedom

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.

- Danny Glover

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